tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post6826118517251953815..comments2023-10-24T08:14:26.802-07:00Comments on Robert Knight's Blog: Konsole SurveyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18355855797731147055noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post-37948426614143661862007-03-20T11:02:00.000-07:002007-03-20T11:02:00.000-07:00"Additional comments about Question 8:" (page 2)Sh..."Additional comments about Question 8:" (page 2)<BR/><BR/>Shouldn't this be "Additional comments about Question 7:"? ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post-61937105543904067002007-03-20T02:19:00.000-07:002007-03-20T02:19:00.000-07:00Where will the results be presented? I'm really in...Where will the results be presented? <BR/><BR/>I'm really interested in this.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for making Konsole even better!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post-88649564048466929742007-03-19T03:44:00.000-07:002007-03-19T03:44:00.000-07:00I'm writing this here instead of on the survey bec...I'm writing this here instead of on the survey because it is a bit long, and maybe it is interesting for other people to read too.<BR/><BR/>I think that currently color schemes in terminal emulators are a bit of a mess. Let me explain what I mean. The way I think it is supposed to work is this:<BR/>The non-written standard is obviously white on black, because that is how "real" terminals are, so all programs can be expected to work right with that scheme; also, the colors used it that scheme are fairly standard.<BR/>So I think that in all schemes with dark background "intensive" colors should be light while not intensive colors should be dark (they don't have to look right with a dark color as background, while they should be readable on "intensive" colors). And until here that is exactly how it works, apart from intensive and non-intensive colors often being the same. But for dark text on light backgrounds for programs not having to care about the color scheme (and they really shouldn't) intensive colors should be dark and not-intensive colors light, "intensive (white)" should actually be black.<BR/><BR/>Here is a screeshot to see what I mean, from back when I used Gentoo and a light color scheme:<BR/>http://gentoo-wiki.com/images/1/18/KDE-nimatar.20050829.jpg<BR/>that's how I think it should look, with the default colors it would be barely readable<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately all terminals with light on dark color schemes use the "standard" color scheme with only e few colors changed. And what is worse, some programs have had to adapt to this, in same cases using background colors that are of the same type as the text (both intensive or both non-intensive) because they look okay with the standard colors.<BR/>If you use a light background using the previous rules, you have to check the option "set background=dark" in vim, which is, to say the least, non very nice (but if they expect you using those rules, they wouldn't need any option of that kind at all).<BR/><BR/>Maybe it is a bit late now to change things, but as a fact currently light colors schemes don't work very well, which is a pity.<BR/><BR/>If you too think it should be nice to solve this problem, I could try to contact other terminal emulator developers and of programs like vim who should change their behavior accordingly.<BR/>Maybe I could even try to contact freedesktop.org about it??Fela Winkelmolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06824333600839332176noreply@blogger.com