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Change the Makefile to install the example-colors #9

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m040601 opened this issue Jul 25, 2021 · 3 comments
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Change the Makefile to install the example-colors #9

m040601 opened this issue Jul 25, 2021 · 3 comments

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@m040601
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m040601 commented Jul 25, 2021

The source repo includes a folder called "example-colors":

└── linux-vt-setcolors
    ├── example-colors
    │   ├── solarized
    │   ├── solarized-light
    │   ├── terminal.sexy
    │   │   ├── base16
    │   │   ├── collection
    │   │   ├── convert.coffee
    │   │   ├── README.md
    │   │   └── xcolors.net
    │   └── tomorrow-jellybean

Please change the PKGBUILD (for Arch Linux) or the upstream Makefile to include it.
It should end up in something like /usr/share/setcolors/ or /usr/share/doc/set/colors.

It's very unconfortable, to install the package and then have to go back to the internet to hunt and peck for colorschemes just to try some.

@GaKu999
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GaKu999 commented Jul 25, 2021

Considering this lacks releases the only way to install it is from the git repo, and having it already gives you access to the example colors directly, since nothing is able to use the example colors as themes they are sadly considered litter.

@evanpurkhiser
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I always intended the example colors to just live there so people could see what some themes might look like 🤷‍♂️

I'm indifferent, I would prefer to not have the package install more clutter into the system personally.

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GaKu999 commented Mar 21, 2022

Well, an alternative would be to expand further so it can work paired with a .conf file, like vconsole.conf, and get a theme id from there, then fetch the theme from one of /etc or /usr...

But that would require a minor overhaul here and there.

It would still be human readable tho, the alternative from kbd setvtrgb uses a really messed up format that obviously requires wrappers around it...

Or systemd users could just expand the vconsole setup thing to include besides all that is already read from vconsole.conf, color setups for the linux console, its kinda weird when one thinks about it how neglected the colors are.

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