Bug 895396 - Highlight colours are not distinctive
Summary: Highlight colours are not distinctive
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mc
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Vokál
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-15 07:53 UTC by vvs
Modified: 2018-06-22 12:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-06-22 12:05:20 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description vvs 2013-01-15 07:53:01 UTC
Description of problem:

As Fedora 18 switched to 256 colours in terminals this should be considered for text mode applications. The highlight colours in mc become not distinctive enough in the new environment. Something should be done about that. This is an enhancement request.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

mc-4.8.6-2.fc18.i686

How reproducible:

On any 256 colour terminal

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run mc
  
Actual results:

Look at the colour of the directory entries. They are almost indistinguishable from the plain files.

Expected results:

They should be easily distinguished from other files.

Additional info:

In the previous version of Fedora white intensity was simulated by using bold font. In the 256 colour scheme it doesn't any more. As the glyphs are very thin and the colours of white are very close it's very difficult to see the difference. I'm forced to override the TERM environment variable for mc to fall back to the previous colours.

Comment 1 Pádraig Brady 2013-01-15 10:41:10 UTC
I use gnome-terminal with the "linux console" palette in which case the colors are easily distinguishable. Though in other palettes, especially "Tango",
the colors aren't distinguishable enough.

So the mc dir colors should be adjusted to something more appropriate
for the default set of palettes. Note resorting to bold in 256 color
is not good as many turn it off due to how bad it looks.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-12-21 10:23:14 UTC
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Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2014-02-05 14:51:40 UTC
Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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Comment 6 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:53:06 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 10:54:15 UTC
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version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

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Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2017-11-16 19:07:23 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 25 is nearing its end of life.
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and issuing updates for Fedora 25. It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time
this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora  'version'
of '25'.

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version'
to a later Fedora version.

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able to fix it before Fedora 25 is end of life. If you would still like
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 9 Tomasz Kłoczko 2018-06-22 12:05:20 UTC
Fedora 18 has been long time ago EOLed.
If the issue still is present please open new ticket or reopen this one referring to type of the terminal application and $TERM in which colors are displayed incorrectly.
Nevertheless mc on use colors is using only curses functionalies so this bug may be related to exact terminal definition of terminal application.

Closing.


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