Version: (using KDE 4.3.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package some apps like vim can actually use 256 colors on the cli however many terminals don't support this and as such it is not the default. some themes in vim will use 256 color's if TERM=xterm-256color. by default in konsole you only get 8 colors if it was set to xterm-256color you'd get 256 colors where applicable. Most users aren't aware this is possible. there may be a good reason to have this set to xterm that I'm not aware of.
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Every terminal I found uses xterm except for MacOSX terminal.app (which is set to xterm-256colors and allows the user to pick from 6 different terms). Perhaps putting a combo box under the 'Environment' box would allow greater visibility. I would be more inclined to allow the user to change it easily instead of having to deal w/ verifying the system has it (on every platform/distro). Any patches would be appreciated.
Coming from bug 371919: I'm strongly in favor of switching the default to xterm-256color. It's a cool and useful feature, I see no reason to hold it back from users. In vte (gnome-terminal and friends) we've made this change 1.5 years ago (in vte-0.40). A few people complained on askubuntu and friends that their vim color scheme changed and they prefered the old one, they are happy with the solution that they revert to TERM=xterm. We haven't heard about anything more serious issue than this. Most people are probably just silently happy to have more colors available out of the box.
For what it's worth, fedora has defaulted to using xterm-256color for a few releases, see also: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/konsole5.git/tree/konsole-xterm-256color.patch
Git commit 2671800b084cf89f1a91c6b3fdf93eb3b8078672 by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 24/11/2016 at 16:29. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. set default TERM=xterm-256color Change TERM=xterm to xterm-256color Related: bug 371919 M +1 -1 src/Profile.cpp M +1 -1 src/Pty.cpp https://commits.kde.org/konsole/2671800b084cf89f1a91c6b3fdf93eb3b8078672
Git commit d5cac9d2f1a1225d19c0be6b51e3db6e4aaed3d4 by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 24/11/2016 at 16:32. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'Applications/16.12'. set default TERM=xterm-256color Change TERM=xterm to xterm-256color Related: bug 371919 (cherry picked from commit 2671800b084cf89f1a91c6b3fdf93eb3b8078672) M +1 -1 src/Profile.cpp M +1 -1 src/Pty.cpp https://commits.kde.org/konsole/d5cac9d2f1a1225d19c0be6b51e3db6e4aaed3d4