Can the theme, desert, be improved?

[kgfly]

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Is your feature request related something that is currently hard to do? Please describe.

The char of most dark them except desert is too bright. So I only consider desert. However, for desert, the char in quickfix window is hard to read.

This is what the quickfix window of desert looks like,

This is what the quickfix window of default theme looks like,

You can see the highlighted char in desert is hard to read.

Describe the solution you'd like For desert, change the background to make the char easier to ready.

Describe alternatives you've considered I am currently using this dark theme, https://github.com/liuchengxu/space-vim-dark

Additional context

[chrisbra]

So the contrast in the quickfix window for the currently selected item is too small? That uses the QuickFixLine highlighting group. You can adjust that in your vimrc with e.g. a colorscheme auto command.

Have you contacted the maintainer of the file?

[chrisbra]

for better color schemes see #1665

[kgfly]

Thanks. I didn't contact the maintainer. I tried

hi QuickFixLine term=standout ctermfg=0 ctermbg=3 guifg=Black guibg=Yellow hi QuickFixLine term=reverse ctermbg=52 hi QuickFixLine term=reverse ctermbg=Cyan guibg=Cyan

But QuickFixLine seems not working. It no longer has highlighted line, etc

I prefer desert. If not working, I just use the default white one.

[idbrii]

@9527KGG: I forked desert to make my sandydune colorscheme to solve some of these issues, make some colour prettier, and to add more color variation to distinguish types. My reddish solution to this problem improves the contrast, ~but isn't pretty -- I might improve this one~ fixed.

Check it out: https://github.com/idbrii/vim-sandydune