mc uses dhotfocus color for selected entry in the history dialog

[mc-butler]

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Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4274
Reporter	mstilkerich (ms@….de)

Hello,

I am in the process of creating a color scheme based on the solarized colors palette using truecolors.

I noticed that mc uses the dialog.dhotfocus color for the selected entry in the history list. My understanding of this color is it should be used for single hotkey characters, and therefore use for the entire entry in the history list comes unexpected to me.

What I would expect here is the use of dialog.dfocus instead. After all, the non-selected entry also uses the dialog._default_ color, not dialog.dhotnormal which would be the non-focused pendant to dhotfocus.

A screenshot is available here https://github.com/mstilkerich/mc-solarized-truecolor/blob/553183d61c17f310ffb2d0b7beb5a7392f18bc3e/screenshots/dark-truecolor-history-dialog.png.

The corresponding skin file is this:
https://github.com/mstilkerich/mc-solarized-truecolor/blob/553183d61c17f310ffb2d0b7beb5a7392f18bc3e/solarized-dark-truecolor.ini

Is this intended? It doesn't look nicely as normally this color style is only used for single characters.

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Aug 29, 2021 at 13:55 UTC (comment 1)

• Resolution set to duplicate
• Component changed from mc-core to mc-skin
• Version changed from 4.8.27 to master
• Status changed from new to closed
• Milestone Future Releases deleted

Closed as duplicate of #3160.