Terminal unusable with mc due to bad standard color scheme

[Umeneri]

Well, I had to use Gnome terminal until elementary's terminal has some sort of setup functionality (or profiles like Gnome terminal). At the moment the terminal is unusable due to the standard colors - this makes the blue color scheme of mc unreadable. And, believe it or not, mc is THE most used app here and I assume I'm not the only one.

[Samu Nuutamo (carbon)]

I'm not sure what mc is, but I agree the default theme is not good enough for active use. Luckily you can change the color scheme using the dconf-editor.

Here's an example of a nice gnome-like theme with a touch of elementary in it.

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.palette:
#303030:#e1321a:#6ab017:#ffc519:#165a9e:#ec2361:#2aa7e7:#d1d1d1:#5d5d5d:#ff4933:#74bd1e:#ffd526:#0071ff:#eb2a65:#4bb8fd:#a020f0

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.foreground:
#a9b6b8

[Umeneri (umeneri)]

Hi Samu

mc is the Midnight Commander - a tool which I use frequently in a terminal. Actually a Linux without mc is no Linux ;)

(try sudo apt-get install mc)

And thanks so much for the colour codes, I'll try them.

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 09 Oktober 2014 um 17:40:17 Uhr
Von: "Samu Nuutamo" <email address hidden>
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Betreff: [Bug 1368893] Re: Terminal unusable with mc due to bad standard color scheme
I'm not sure what mc is, but I agree the default theme is not good
enough for active use. Luckily you can change the color scheme using the
dconf-editor.

Here's an example of a nice gnome-like theme with a touch of elementary
in it.

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.palette:
#303030:#e1321a:#6ab017:#ffc519:#165a9e:#ec2361:#2aa7e7:#d1d1d1:#5d5d5d:#ff4933:#74bd1e:#ffd526:#0071ff:#eb2a65:#4bb8fd:#a020f0

org.pantheon.terminal.settings.foreground:
#a9b6b8

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Title:
  Terminal unusable with mc due to bad standard color scheme

Status in Pantheon Terminal:
  New

Bug description:
  Well, I had to use Gnome terminal until elementary's terminal has some
  sort of setup functionality (or profiles like Gnome terminal). At the
  moment the terminal is unusable due to the standard colors - this
  makes the blue color scheme of mc unreadable. And, believe it or not,
  mc is THE most used app here and I assume I'm not the only one.

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[CryojenX (cryojenx-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree, the color scheme is especially terrible for those with poor vision, which is disappointing since most of the apps in elementary are very good about visual design.

[Galih Kusumo (junglon)]

Try this solution to make mc (or another terminal GUI) looks better

https://gist.github.com/samitnuk/ef568fac49afe493d42d6a0395d761ee

Or use gogh (https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh) to customize the terminal