Colormgr should change more terminal text colors

[ghost]

Currently NsCDE's colormgr only themes the default foreground text color and the background. This leads to the other colors (1-7) sometimes becoming unreadable.

What dtterm does[1] is use extremely simple colors:

0: #000000 (black)
1: #ff0000 (red)
2: #00ff00 (green)
3: #ffff00 (yellow)
4: #0000ff (blue)
5: #ff00ff (magenta)
6: #00ffff (cyan)
7: #ffffff (white)

It uses these same colors for all the color palettes. Cycling through the color palettes provided shows all of them work ok, with the exception of yellow not looking very readable on light backgrounds. For intense and faint (1;31/2;31 instead of 0;31) it simply bolds the text. Not sure about other terminals but Konsole has an option to bold intense text but not faint text.

Ideally there would be some sort of library like 'generate a color scheme based on this background color' but I can't seem to find any (maybe someone here knows of one). Until then it should probably just change them to the 7 dtterm colors, possibly with something like 10% darker/lighter for bold/faint.

[1] Testing using this https://archive.org/details/solaris265-qemu

[NsCDE]

Hello @tim78245

Thanks for providing me this information. Also, you have retinhed problem rightly. I didn't got into dtterm colors deep never, and coloring things in terminal programatically on the basis of the terminal background (palette color 4) is outside CDE scope and risky.

I'm not sure about faint color, but bold for intense is a logical choice, while 10-20% less saturated for faint will make sense.

Currently, colormgr.local may take a care about mate-terminal, konsole, qterminal, xfce-terminal and couple of this, but this is for terminal background and foreground, while colors are totally non-standard and non-uniformed.

Goes on the todo list ...