Enable "Solarized" color schemes by default for Workstation

Ryan Lerch rlerch at redhat.com
Fri Aug 1 14:32:49 UTC 2014


On 07/30/2014 12:25 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ryan Lerch (rlerch at redhat.com) said:
>> I recently blogged on the Fedora Magazine about the awesome addition of the
>> Solarized colour schemes in GEdit and GNOME-terminal in workstation [1].
>> And a commenter on that post asked the question: why not make it default?
>>
>> Since terminal ships with the dark GTK theme turned on, we could set the
>> default color scheme there to Solarized Dark, and for gedit (that uses the
>> light GTK theme by default), enable Solarized Light by default.
> So, I just tried this out in the terminal. I'm not sure I would support it
> as the default because Solarized's palette (at least in F-20) changes the
> actual colors such that a terminal app coded to display 'yellow' will get
> something that isn't.
>
> Bill
I wonder if this is an issue with the implementation of the Solarized 
theme in gnome-terminal. I can't seem to find any other examples of this 
issue with people using the Solarized theme in terminals.

cheers,
ryanlerch


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