Much darker background colors with pywal16 comapred to python-pywal arch package

[ghost]

I switched to your pywal fork and i noticed that background colors are almost pitch black compared to python-pywal i was using before

Is there any way to make pywal16 behave like python-pywal
(I used VSCode as a example but this apllies to anything that sues @backgroundColor including my waybar and rofi presets)

python-pywal package from arch repo

pywal16 installed with pipx

[guillaumeboehm]

Just throwing that here, I didn't check anything. But the goal of pywal16 is to have a wider range of colors, the backgroundColor in the original pywal is likely closer to color8 of pywal16 rather than color0. I'd say the solution for you if you want a lighter background color is to tap in color8 instead of backgroundColor? Otherwise it would simply turn the issue around for people that want a darker background color I think?

Although I get the issue of not being very iso with pywal, but I'm not sure that is the goal of the project.

[ghost]

@guillaumeboehm

This how color 8 looks like

Here is the template i use as well in case it's needed

@define-color foreground {foreground};
@define-color background {background};
@define-color cursor {cursor};

@define-color color0 {color0};
@define-color color1 {color1};
@define-color color2 {color2};
@define-color color3 {color3};
@define-color color4 {color4};
@define-color color5 {color5};
@define-color color6 {color6};
@define-color color7 {color7};
@define-color color8 {color8};
@define-color color9 {color9};
@define-color color10 {color10};
@define-color color11 {color11};
@define-color color12 {color12};
@define-color color13 {color13};
@define-color color14 {color14};
@define-color color15 {color15};

[guillaumeboehm]

Maybe color generation could need some rework, but seeing that a partial or maybe full rewrite of the program is probably on the way. I'd say it can wait until then.

[niksingh710]

yep i have noticed that too.
but if i change engine to haishoku then it works a bit nice and doesn't tilt towards dark black.

[niksingh710]

@eylles is the background dark color is intentional?

[eylles]

hmmm i barely changed anything about how colors are generated and adjusted, tho i think when sonjiku made the original pr he did make color[0] quite darker.

welp i guess it happened either here: e504c55 or here: 42efe31

hmmm interesting, the only change is with the wal backend that is now generating a darker bg color.

with my current wallapaper:

these are the values i get

pywal16
wal bg:	#050509
colorthief bg:	#08090f

pywal
wal bg:	#11101d
colorthief bg:	#08090f

tagging @BEST8OY since he also reported this.

welp i'll simply modify the wal backend to output a lighter color before it gets darkened by the generic adjust function, unless someone does want to also have the darker bg from wal as an option.

[niksingh710]

looking forward for the fix commit.
and for general info ig that everyone knows but pywal is now archived..... so now pywal-16 is going to be the standard replacement ig.

[BEST8OY]

hmmm i barely changed anything about how colors are generated and adjusted, tho i think when sonjiku made the original pr he did make color[0] quite darker.
tagging @BEST8OY since he also reported this.

still not the way I expect it to be!

[eylles]

Would you mind sharing your wallpaper so i can use it to check the color values first hand?

[niksingh710]

Would you mind sharing your wallpaper so i can use it to check the color values first hand?

I don't have the wallpaper used by @BEST8OY but the wallpaper i used for above is

in the above preview you can see that colors of nautilus are quite darker (better than before but still a bit darker)

using 3.5.3

[BEST8OY]

Would you mind sharing your wallpaper so i can use it to check the color values first hand?

[eylles]

Thanks, will check and try to figure out where in the code the color 0 shades differ

[niksingh710]

This is the image that should give a brownish background but it is giving a pitch black one.

I generate pywal colors for heroic and i use color0 -> backgroud as the background for the heroic launcher

[eylles]

thanks, will have to use the 3 images to check exactly what is going on, haven't had much time to check and fix this since last friday catched a sprained ankle and got 2 things that i need to tend before going back to this.