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Swordfish90 / cool-retro-term

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
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Add ability to customize colorscheme #547

Open ryvnf opened 5 years ago

ryvnf commented 5 years ago

At first I thought this was more of a novelty software. But I've actually switched to cool-retro-term for daily use because it makes working with the terminal more fun. I have disabled all effects other than Bloom, BurnIn and Static Noise. It becomes very nice without being distracting and puts a smile on my face. Thanks for this software!

One things I require from a terminal I want to use on a daily basis is the ability to customize the colorscheme. I tried searching on how that is achieved and found #536, and the location of the colorscheme files at /lib/qt/qml/QMLTermWidget/ so in the end I managed to customize what I wanted.

But this has multiple problems. First is that I require root-privileges to change the colorscheme at that location. Second is that it is quite tedious and completely hidden from normal users.

Here is what I propose:

I think this will help a lot of users who are currently held back by the fact that they can't customize the colorscheme in the terminal. And I think more customization isn't bad, especially not customization which people nowadays expect from terminal emulators.

tidux commented 4 years ago

Another benefit would be exposing the palettes used by the various modes for other applications. I actually use C-R-T over other terminal programs because the Monochrome Green theme handles graceful translation of wacky 256+color applications better than anything else I've used for similar effect like Solarized in other terminals.

efie45 commented 4 years ago

Adding a +1 to this one. I just started using your terminal because as the first comment said it does make using the terminal a lot more fun. However, there is some syntax highlighting that I rely on to spot errors when running long scripts, etc.. that would be really nice to have available in this emulator.

altruios commented 3 years ago

if nothing else: can we make it so we can change the color scheme in the .config/'Unknown Organization"/cool-retro-term.conf file?

cpadilla commented 2 years ago

+1. I use this terminal religiously and I've been meaning to look into customizing the colors. I recently upgraded my system and I noticed the colors are slightly different now (worse). I'm not sure what packages of mine got updated (or not) to cause this but I've decided I've had enough of it. I'm gonna try to look into creating a fix for this issue myself and if I make any progress, I'll post an update or open a PR.