Color issue in new version of Terminal

[Soljanka]

What Happened?

As @Romchec reported on reddit there is a minor color issue with the new default colors using htop and other cli apps. Especially the default color for Gray is a problem. Doesn't look like gray (debatable, at least for me) at all and makes gray text almost unreadable.

old terminal colors using htop

new default terminal colors

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open terminal
2. run htop

Expected Behavior

Default color for 'Gray' should be the first or second option from the default gray palette (or something similar)

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[jeremypw]

@danrabbit The default grey does look too dark to me as well - what would be the best color?

[wout]

I would like to add that with light themes, the new colour palette doesn't work well. For example, the colour White is very light on light backgrounds.

For example, here's the output from one of my Haskell apps:

And this is ESBuild:

With the solarised colour scheme, it's even more problematic I think:

[Antolius]

We could invert white and bright white with black and bright black when switching from dark to light theme, like it's suggested in the ANK-dev/solarized-terminal-fixed project.

I'm not sure how bulletproof something like his would be, but I put together a small demo branch in case anyone wants to check it out. I don't have any Haskell apps that I could test with, but this is what htop looks like:

[queeup]

Old values were fine. It happens after this PR: #672

[jeremypw]

Maybe we should offer a choice of a select few named 3rd party palettes as well? I agree the default color palette has a lot of muddy greyish light colors in the light style (light green, light yellow, light blue, light cyan)

Not sure where this palette came from but I would have thought a minimum contrast between colors should be applied as we have no control over which colors an app will use together.

[Zyten]

Would it be acceptable to publish a temporary solution for this by making it such that clicking the Custom palette icon allows you to customise the currently active palette instead of defaulting to what I believe is the solarized palette?

i.e. If I were using the elementary dark palette, I can click on the Custom palette icon and just change the offending colour; which is much more convenient than trying to recreate the dark palette from scratch using the UI.

[wout]

This is still an issue in both the dark and light palettes. The problem seems to be that the same text colour palette is used in both like and dark themes. So light colours will blend with light backgrounds and vice versa.

[cshaa]

I used these commands to walkaround the issue for dark mode:

gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings palette '#073642:#dc322f:#859900:#b58900:#268bd2:#d33682:#2aa198:#eee8d5:#5e5c64:#dc322f:#586e75:#657b83:#839496:#6c71c4:#93a1a1:#fdf6e3'
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings background '#2e2e2e'
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings theme 'custom'