Follow-up Comment #2, task #6834 (project weechat):
I uploaded "before and after" screenshots ..
weechat with the default colors
.. and weechat with a doctored palette that uses 16 colors
that I picked
somewhat randomly out of the available 256 on my xterm .. so
you can see with
your own eyes that the difference is dramatic. I'm not
claiming my "theme" is
anywhere near beautiful or anything .. I did not go to art
school and only
spent about twenty minutes doing this. But having access to
more colors
makes a heck of a difference .. both for Joe User like
myself _and_ for the
image of weechat as a modern text-mode application. Just
take a look at the
"default colors" screenshot .. I know folks who
would be embarrassed should
their friends find out that's what they are using.
Let me know.
Thanks,
Chris.
PS. I need to add that this is not entirely my
"idea" .. I first saw a
screenshot on a web page by "phrakture" something
.. I think the name was ..
who basically used the same trick to change the pathetic
default terminal
color palette to something a little more in keeping with
21st century tastes
.. I thought to myself .. heck .. this weechat app looks
cool .. It was only
after I installed weechat and had played with it a few days
that I realized
how good it is.
My point is .. if I had not seen this screenshot with decent
colors in the
first place, I would probably never have bothered installing
weechat in the
first place. Sure, it's possible to tweak your xterm and
come up with 16
decent colors for all occasions .. like blue #0000FF"
becomes darkkhaki3 or
something .. and who needs more than 16 on a terminal anyway
.. but all this
tweaking requires some understanding and practice with X
resources and escape
sequences .. So it would be really nice .. and maybe
important to have access
to 256 colors out-of-da-box. After all someone may step in
who did go to art
school and come up with some really nice color schemes for
weechat at some
point.
Thanks
Chris.
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