Bug 471462 - Hard-to-see colors in black-on-white color scheme
Summary: Hard-to-see colors in black-on-white color scheme
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 22.12.3
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2023-06-26 09:20 UTC by Linus Kardell
Modified: 2024-04-26 06:34 UTC (History)
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2023-06-26 09:20 UTC, Linus Kardell
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Description Linus Kardell 2023-06-26 09:20:34 UTC
Created attachment 159911 [details]
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SUMMARY
See the attached screenshot, showing the black on white color scheme, one of the default installed color schemes. No idea who actually provides the color schemes, if it comes from Konsole or some component, or from the distro, but I'll try here first.

Some of the colors are pretty bad, particularly color 4, which is a barely readable light yellow on white, and color 8, which is white on white.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.53-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 Gibyte of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2
Comment 1 Dave Vasilevsky 2024-04-26 06:34:41 UTC
The Gnome palettes here tend to look much nicer on light backgrounds: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/blob/master/src/terminal-profile-editor.cc?ref_type=heads#L196 . At least in the sense that they're actually readable! It also helps that Gnome allows choosing the overall "scheme" (background/foreground colors) and "palette" (set of colors) independently.

It doesn't look like there's a Konsole black-on-white scheme update in a decade, so it's not unreasonable to think it's due for an update: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/blob/master/data/color-schemes/BlackOnWhite.colorscheme?ref_type=heads

Another option might be adding a new scheme you like to the KDE Store (which is free): https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=462&ord=rating Or you could pick an existing scheme from there. Unforunately few of the currently available schemes are light-colored, and tbh I find them mostly pretty weird. But some, like 'Github Light' are quite nice: https://store.kde.org/p/1574065/