Bug 135959

Summary: More random schemas, please
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: heikki
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description heikki 2006-10-19 13:33:02 UTC 
Version:           1.4.2 (using KDE 3.3.2,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-1-386

As a programmer, I often have half a dozen Konsole windows on my screen. I like to have different background color on them, so I use the "Black on Light Color" schema as my default. I would like to have a few more of those semi-random color schemas, like "Black on various shades of green", or "white on a fairly dark color". 

The easy way would be to add a few more random hues in the schema editor. 

The more complex way would be to add a way to edit the randomness, for example by choosing two colors, interpolating a line between them, and choosing a random point from that line. But this may be an overkill...

There is already a color-selection box for selecting the custom color. Perhaps it would be possible to choose "Random Hue" to mean some variation around the color chosen there...
Comment 1 Robert Knight 2006-10-19 14:44:58 UTC 
> The more complex way would be to add a way to edit the randomness, for example 
> by choosing two colors, interpolating a line between them, and choosing a 
> random point from that line. But this may be an overkill... 

Definitely overkill.  I'm not against including these facilities within Konsole's code, but the UI for such features (if any) would have to be part of a separate application.

> There is already a color-selection box for selecting the custom color. Perhaps 
> it would be possible to choose "Random Hue" to mean some variation around 
> the color chosen there...

That is a possibility.  Another alternative might be to have in the color selection facility some option to choose a "Random Light Color" or "Random Dark Color".
Comment 2 Robert Knight 2007-07-09 01:03:49 UTC 
Implemented in KDE 4.  See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133983 for details of how it works.