Macvim snapshot 52: Colors look "off"

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I'm trying out MacVim 7.2.376 (Snapshot 52) with OS X 10.6.2 and 30'' Apple
Cinema Display, and the first thing I notice is that the colors are quite a
bit off.

I was taken aback, thinking that I'm using a different color scheme. Then I
read in the release notes that there was a switch from profiled colors to
device colors as a fix to full screen bug? I hope this is just a temporary
workaround and not a permanent change, because as it is the colors are
really different than before and not similar to how they look on different
platforms (including Windows and Linux). 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by veritas....@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2010 at 12:19

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This change was requested by several users, see these threads:

http://groups.google.com/group/vim_mac/browse_thread/thread/4857e976305ebd4e/
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_mac/browse_thread/thread/e66e86951c2d4fcf

It seems there is no way to please everybody...I might have to expose a user 
default to control whether to use 
device or calibrated colors?

Original comment by bjorn.winckler@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2010 at 9:14

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Adding user option to control this is probably the best way to proceed, since I
personally never use full screen mode. 

The discussion then will be about the default value for this option :D.

Perhaps another option is to turn off profiled colors and switch to device 
colors and
refresh the view only in full screen mode? I don't know if that is a viable 
option.

Original comment by veritas....@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2010 at 11:48

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There seems to be a minor misunderstanding here: the issue has nothing to do 
with full-screen mode (that was 
just a bug where the background in full-screen always used calibrated colors 
but the Core Text renderer 
otherwise used device colors).

The question is whether to use calibrated or device colors.  That's it.

It seems most people expect device colors (see the links in comment 1), hence I 
switched over to use that.

Original comment by bjorn.winckler@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2010 at 12:30

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Oh, I didn't realize that. Well, in that case an option to use profiled colors 
would
be fine. 

Original comment by veritas....@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2010 at 11:47

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Is there an option for this yet?

Its weird if you set a certain background-color for Terminal and MacVim (say 
#171617) and Terminal displays it correctly, while MacVim displays a notably 
darker one (in this case #121112). Same for all other values of my color scheme.

Original comment by chris.se...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2014 at 9:48