#766044 gnome-terminal: Custom text/background colour should offer colours from currently selected palette scheme

Package:
gnome-terminal
Source:
gnome-terminal
Description:
GNOME terminal emulator application
Submitter:
"Conrad J.C. Hughes \(for Debian package stuff\)"
Date:
2014-10-20 12:45:16 UTC
Severity:
normal
#766044#5
Date:
2014-10-20 11:15:55 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

  * What led up to the situation?

    - I wanted to use a custom palette and custom text & background
      colours (specifically, the Solarized scheme).

  * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
    ineffective)?

    - I went to the Colours tab on Profile preferences, and selected
      the built-in Solarized *palette* colour scheme.  There was an
      immediate surprise here, in that it didn't change the terminal
      text and background colours.

    - Then, under "Text and Background Colour", I disabled "Use colours
      from system theme" and selected the Built-in theme "Solarized
      dark" for text and background.

    - Unexpectedly this used black as a background colour rather than
      Solarized's base02 (which I believe is the usual default), so I
      clicked on Background colour to set it myself.

  * What was the outcome of this action?

    - The palette in the colour picker is completely unrelated to the
      Solarized palette which I selected earlier, which meant I had to
      separately look up the colour numbers for the Solarized palette,
      identify base02's RGB code and manually enter that in the
      background colour picker.

  * What outcome did you expect instead?

    - I think it would be appropriate to include the currently selected
      terminal colour palette when picking text and background colours.

    - I also think it would be appropriate for palette schemes to
      automatically select associated text and background schemes, but
      that's a smaller issue.
#766044#10
Date:
2014-10-20 11:57:37 UTC
From:
To:
thought Gnome's choice of background colour was wrong because my editor
was defaulting to a brighter (and incorrect) background colour, and I
assumed the problem was with the Gnome scheme rather than with the
editor's use of the Gnome palette.

I still think that showing colours from the currently selected palette
in the text/background picker would be appropriate, as described in the
original report.

Regards,
Conrad