readability problem default blue color and transparency

[Airlangga Cahya Utama]

Problem:
Terminal blue color is not readable at all.

How to reproduce:
1. $ sudo apt-get install vim
2. $ vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Possible proposed fix:
- Reduce transparency
- Adjust blue color to much lighter value

[Akshay Shekher (voldyman)]

weird it works fine for me.

have you set t_Co in vim?

try :set t_Co=256 , if it works then add it to your .vimrc

[Akshay Shekher (voldyman)]

also all colors are perfectly visible for me.

[Airlangga Cahya Utama (airlangga.cahya)]

The problem only arise when the dark blue (default vim for comments)
is used on font and terminal is placed in front of white application
(e.g browser). It appear exactly as attached screenshoot in previous
comments.
Please consider to increase default opacity value.
I did change opacity value to 90 and it helps a lot than default
opacity value (80).

Thank you.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Akshay Shekher <email address hidden> wrote:
> also all colors are perfectly visible for me.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2013-09-04 21:33:59.png"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-terminal/+bug/1211111/+attachment/3802550/+files/Screenshot%20from%202013-09-04%2021%3A33%3A59.png
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> Title:
> readability problem default blue color and transparency
>
> Status in Pantheon Terminal:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Problem:
> Terminal blue color is not readable at all.
>
> How to reproduce:
> 1. $ sudo apt-get install vim
> 2. $ vim /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Possible proposed fix:
> - Reduce transparency
> - Adjust blue color to much lighter value
>
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[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

What about 85?

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

And transparency issues are kind dependent on your background too I guess.

[Samu Nuutamo (carbon)]

This is a big problem when editing html files with nano. As all html tags are dark blue it makes it very difficult to read the text.

[John Miller (dohn)]

As a user I'd like to point out that I feel like I have no options in this situation and that it is extremely frustrating that one of the most important applications for any operating system - the text editor, which in my preference is vim - is extremely hard to use for editing anything other than plain text files because of the syntax highlighting combined with this bug. My first response was to see if I could magically make a menu appear on the terminal app to get to settings somehow and disable the opacity (defaultly hidden menu is a common design pattern in Windows7 and Ubuntu among others). Next response was right clicking to look for anything. Next response was pure defeat (And if your solution here is to "install an alternative terminal emulator if you dont like our decisions" goes against the entire reason I would want to use eOS anyway - I tend to like your decisions!)(Similarly, Googling for such a basic problem should not be required, and was not something that even entered my mind because what kind of GUI application does not provide any way to access its settings via its GUI?)

I hope that I have shown how critical this bug really is to a user with my usage patterns (eos + vim + system-admin work), check the screenshot to see it yourself.

My least-intrusion fix proposal would be easier access to a setting to change the background opacity via right click (maybe simply 'Disable/Enable Background Translucency'). Another simple alternative would be to use a different color scheme.

I understand that determining a solid all-around resolution to this issue is challenging because of potential impact to the great aesthetic you get with normal non-blue CLI use in the terminal, but devs please do not overlook this issue. I think it must be resolved by the next major release. Thanks.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

i assume this is fixed in Isis because we're shipping with solarized by default, yeah?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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