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Bug 344940 - Adapt color palette to background color
Adapt color palette to background color
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.13.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
: 345409 424408 606064 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-15 03:49 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2021-06-10 13:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Bill Nottingham 2006-06-15 03:49:38 UTC 
Reading http://david.navi.cx/blog/?p=94, and looking at the xchat-gnome code, it defines a stock palette and modifies it based on the background color using HSV, to make sure you have maximum contrast.

vte (when used via gnome-terminal) defaults to a user speficied list of colors that does not adapt, leading to potential unreadability if the background color is changed.

Having it use a similar algorithm to xchat-gnome could solve this.

Feel free to move to gnome-terminal if it's more appropriate to do the palette munging there.
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2006-06-21 15:43:53 UTC 
*** Bug 345409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-01-07 21:05:56 UTC 
*** Bug 606064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 C de-Avillez 2010-01-07 21:47:32 UTC 
Original UBuntu bug on this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/502888

This seems to get quite evident when comparing output from a 'ls --color' on a directory containing a o+w directory (which is coloured blue-over-green) from a series of terminal emulators, including konsole, roxterm, the linux console, and gnome-terminal.
Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-01-13 19:31:53 UTC 
*** Bug 424408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 13:29:22 UTC 
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