qdiff: Need the way to configure color scheme

[Alexander Belchenko]

I am using a dark colour scheme, and the colours qdiff chooses for the changes do not contrast enough with the scheme I'm using. Is it possible to configure them somehow?

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

thank you for screenshot.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

If you have an inspiration you can try to find more suitable colors and change the code directly.
You need to change RGB values in the lib/diffview.py file, around 43 lines you should see following code:

colors = {
    'delete': (QtGui.QColor(255, 160, 180), QtGui.QColor(200, 60, 90)),
    'insert': (QtGui.QColor(180, 255, 180), QtGui.QColor(80, 210, 80)),
    'replace': (QtGui.QColor(206, 226, 250), QtGui.QColor(90, 130, 180)),
    'blank': (QtGui.QColor(240, 240, 240), QtGui.QColor(171, 171, 171)),
}

QtGui.QColor there are defined R,G,B values to mark different kind of changes. E.g. delete -- currently drawn in red, insert -- in green, replace -- in blue. Second value used to highlight interline changes (currently it's darker color). You can change these values and run qdiff again to see effect.

When you'll be happy with new colors, please attach a patch to this bug report.

[Ohad Kammar (ohad-kammar)]

After implementing the user defined colour configuration (see here: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ohad-kammar/qbzr/configurable-colours/+merge/1278 ), I played around a bit with the actual colours, and am pretty satisfied with these (taken from my configuration file):

[QDIFF COLOURS]
delete_fill = 82, 14, 168
insert_fill = 0, 0, 0
blank_fill = 22, 168, 235
blank_bound = 22, 168, 235
replace_fill = 33, 56, 64
replacement_text_background = 85, 55, 85

Attached is a screenshot.