Colour Scheme PaperColor for KDE Konsole

This is an adaption of the PaperColor theme for the KDE terminal emulator Konsole.

Many thanks go to z2oh. From his dotfiles repository the first version of this colour scheme was copied.

Gallery

Man Page of Bash with Search Highlight of 'Bourne-Again'

Zsh Prompt and Several Watson Colours

Zsh Prompt Icons and Smart Suggestion

Installation

To add this colour scheme to Konsole, copy the colour scheme file to .local/share/konsole/. Then you will be able to select it in the dialogs.

Description of Colour Codes

This section lists some known usages for the individual colour names. This makes it much easier to test certain changes.

Colour Name	Known Usage
Background	normal background
Color0	Zsh prompt text's font colour Tmux status bar's font colour needrestart's box' shadow background colour of devices in the output of ls /dev/sd*
Color0Intense	Zsh smart suggestions
Color1	Zsh's failure cross for error exit codes marked as important messages' font colour in Mutt's index
Color1Intense	font colour if Zsh cannot find a command font colour of remote branches in output of git log archives (*.xz, *.zst, etc.) in output of ls or exa
Color2	Tmux' status bar's background colour font colour for time specification of watson status font colour for known commands in Zsh
Color2Intense	font colour of local branches in output of git log font colour of file names in output of ag number of current prompt in IPython
Color3	highlight of matches in ag's search results Zsh' prompt bar in dirty Git repositories highlight of currently selected messages in Mutt's index
Color3Intense	font colour of tags in output of git log line numbers' font colour in output of ag font colour of JSON files in output of ls and exa font colour of devices in the output of ls /dev/sd*
Color4	normal Zsh prompt bar
Color4Intense	patch question's font colour in git commit -p folder's font colour in output of ls and exa Mutt's header's and footer's font colour font colour of sender in Mutt's pager
Color5	project names' font colour in TDWatson's commands (watson status, watson log, watson start) file name's font colour in output of grep
Color5Intense	font colour of image files (*.jpeg, *.png, etc.) in output of ls and exa
Color6	package name's font colour in output of poetry install highlight of currently selected line in htop
Color6Intense	HEAD in git log
Color7	Mutt' header's font colour deleted entries' font colour in Mutt's index needrestart's box' colour font colour for services mentioned by needrestart
Color7Intense	font colour of currently selected messages in Mutt's index
ForegroundFaint	Zsh's update message's font colour for commands (e.g. quarkus)

Contributing

For faint colours, no usage could be found. If you spot one, please create an issue to let me know.

Changelog

• 2023-05-10: Improved colours slightly. Colours appear more clear and not greyish. Also, unused colours have signal values now to be directly detectable.
• Adaption of Color7 to support a highlighting used by watson.
• Adaptions to two colours to support zsh-autosuggestions.