Themes behaves differently with TERM=xterm-256color #3626
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I too don't like this behavior (it's by design (#2169), not a bug), which is why I'm not using xterm-256color.
In modern distros (at least Ubuntu) TERM is "xterm-256color" by default. Add to this the fact that prevalent terminal palettes don't have enough contrast between "white" and "lightgrey" (or is it "grey") and you get a usability problem "out of the box". |
Is it not a rendering bug in the terminal emulator? I use vte and my TERM is xterm-256color, and with Droid fonts, which have a real (not faux) bold versions the directories are correctly rendered bold. |
According to original 256c support commit, referenced by @mooffie, lack of bold is an intended behavior. Unfortunately original commiter mistakenly assumed that everybody treat colors the same and that was a strategic mistake.
@zaytsev, regarding the Droid font.
As a quick and simple solution, I suggest disabling 256c mode unless current theme does declare support for it. Fortunately we have "[skin]::256colors = true" for that.
What do you think? |
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@eugenesan, I've just attached a screenshot of mc under Ubuntu 14.04 with the default (Ubuntu) fonts, TERM=xterm-256color and modarin256-defbg skin in gnome-terminal (vte). Can you explain me what's wrong here? The directories are as bold as it gets. |
Replying to zaytsev-work:
Note the ";bold".
Most other skins, notably the default one (skins/default.ini), don't specify ";bold" explicitly and therefore aren't displaying bold in 256 mode.
What @eugenesan suggests is to have, as in the old days, the 8 high-intensity colors ("white", "brightgreen", "brightred", "yellow", ...) be bold by default when not using a 256 colors skin, at least. (I say "at least" because people may want to have them bold even when a 256 skin is active: because of the editor syntax files, or because they simply prefer bold.)
(For the record: one solution that doesn't involve coding is to to add ";bold" explicitly to all "directory=" lines. But we use high-intensity colors in other places too ("executable=", syntax files).) |
I'm attaching a screenshot that shows what a new user sees on Lubuntu (a sort of Ubuntu). That's gnome-terminal. Note how (when in 256 colors, default skin) it's not easy to distinguish between directories and normal files.
Replying to mooffie:
(I now see that setting TERM to "xterm-256color" is, probably, the work of gnome-terminal itself.) |
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Dup of #3048. |
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eugenesan(eugenesan@….com)Themes behaves differently with TERM=xterm-256color.
For example folders and execuables are not displayed using bold.
Starting with "TERM=xterm mc" solves the problem.
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zaytsev-work(@zyv) onMar 30, 2016 at 7:24 UTCmooffie(@mooffie) onMar 30, 2016 at 10:40 UTCThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: