Terminal unusable with mc due to bad standard color scheme

[elementaryBot]

Well, I had to use Gnome terminal until elementary's terminal has some sort of setup functionality (or profiles like Gnome terminal). At the moment the terminal is unusable due to the standard colors - this makes the blue color scheme of mc unreadable. And, believe it or not, mc is THE most used app here and I assume I'm not the only one.

Launchpad Details: #LP1368893 Umeneri - 2014-09-12 18:03:49 +0000

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[elementaryBot]

I'm not sure what mc is, but I agree the default theme is not good enough for active use. Luckily you can change the color scheme using the dconf-editor.

Here's an example of a nice gnome-like theme with a touch of elementary in it.

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.palette:
#303030:#e1321a:#6ab017:#ffc519:#165a9e:#ec2361:#2aa7e7:#d1d1d1:#5d5d5d:#ff4933:#74bd1e:#ffd526:#0071ff:#eb2a65:#4bb8fd:#a020f0

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.foreground:
#a9b6b8

Launchpad Details: #LPC Samu Nuutamo - 2014-10-09 15:40:17 +0000

[elementaryBot]

Hi Samu

mc is the Midnight Commander - a tool which I use frequently in a terminal. Actually a Linux without mc is no Linux ;)

(try sudo apt-get install mc)

And thanks so much for the colour codes, I'll try them.

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Betreff: [Bug 1368893] Re: Terminal unusable with mc due to bad standard color scheme
I'm not sure what mc is, but I agree the default theme is not good
enough for active use. Luckily you can change the color scheme using the
dconf-editor.

Here's an example of a nice gnome-like theme with a touch of elementary
in it.

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.palette:
#303030:#e1321a:#6ab017:#ffc519:#165a9e:#ec2361:#2aa7e7:#d1d1d1:#5d5d5d:#ff4933:#74bd1e:#ffd526:#0071ff:#eb2a65:#4bb8fd:#a020f0

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.foreground:
#a9b6b8

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Title:
Terminal unusable with mc due to bad standard color scheme

Status in Pantheon Terminal:
New

Bug description:
Well, I had to use Gnome terminal until elementary's terminal has some
sort of setup functionality (or profiles like Gnome terminal). At the
moment the terminal is unusable due to the standard colors - this
makes the blue color scheme of mc unreadable. And, believe it or not,
mc is THE most used app here and I assume I'm not the only one.

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Launchpad Details: #LPC Umeneri - 2014-10-12 14:06:58 +0000

[elementaryBot]

I agree, the color scheme is especially terrible for those with poor vision, which is disappointing since most of the apps in elementary are very good about visual design.

Launchpad Details: #LPC CryojenX - 2016-11-21 09:09:56 +0000

[Extravert-ir]

Default colour scheme is almost unusable with mc. Attaching screenshot for better understanding

[ruslankonev]

I support, the colors of terminal are very bad. I very loved the implementation of the terminal in the Luna

[junglon]

Try this solution to make mc (or another terminal GUI) looks better

Color Scheme for Pantheon Terminal and Midnight Commander (MC)

Or use gogh to customize the terminal using prebuilt scheme

[liminspace]

Default color scheme in terminal is awful because you can't use any programs without change their settings. Is there any fast solution?

[kr428]

Still an issue in 5.1.4 unfortunately. Hope this to go away at some point, using gogh to mess with the elementary terminal color schemes has other undesired effects. :(

[jeremypw]

Need a new UX team approved palette to put in settings path io.elementary.terminal.settings.palette

[Alecaddd]

Probably slightly related, but using Mercurial queues is hard with the default color scheme.
Specifically when listing non applied patches, which are rendered with opacity, I think, and the default green color doesn't work well.

Apologies if this is unrelated to this bug report.

[paloha]

I would like to confirm that this problem affects also me using Midnight Commander from Yakuake terminal. I am new to MC, so I am not familiar with the config files, color codes, etc. Given the plethora of options and on a first glance IMO not very clear documentation, I figured out the easiest solution to resolve the unreadable text is simply to change the skin.

Tip for newcomers: try which skin works for you directly from within the MC under F9 > Options > Appearance. This is way faster than changing the skin=<some_skin> in ~/.config/mc/ini and restarting MC. Both is also way faster then trying to understand and tweaking individual colors. There is already a good number of skins available. Just pick one, or download some community skins from the internet. All are stored in /usr/share/mc/skins/ and you can add your own into ~/.local/share/mc/skins.

Could someone point me to an explanation why some files are listed in different color? Why is psd different from txt which is also different from py and from png. Is there any resource which clearly defines this behavior? Thanks.