Feature request: Use dark text on a bright background

Bug #2028301 reported by David Hedlund
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Bug Description

* The default background color in Ubuntu MATE 22.04 is white.
* The default background color in Ubuntu 22.04, and 23.04, is tyrian purple-ish (very dark). A dark background will cause eye-straining on day time use.

This will turn off the default theme and use a light-purple background instead:

profile_key=$(gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList default | sed -e "s/'//g" | tr -d "\n")
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_key/ use-theme-colors false
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_key/ background-color "'rgb(255,224,255)'"

See also:
* Trisquel issue: mate-terminal: Proposed theme profile for improved ergonomics - https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/issues/95
* mate-terminal (unpackaged): [Feature request]: Use bright background #441 - https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-terminal/issues/441

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.48.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 20 17:06:24 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-04-23 (87 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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David Hedlund (g-public) wrote :
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David Hedlund (g-public) wrote :

See also this Trisquel issue: mate-terminal: Proposed theme profile for improved ergonomics - https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/issues/95

description: updated
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