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Authored by: dete on Mar 29, '02 07:43:21PM

I don't know if going with cyan would really be an "improvement", if you just want cyan text, then you can simply remap the colours the way that greygent suggested.

It's true that the "lighter" blue that I was able to achieve is still a little darker that is ideal. In my testing I found (0.3, 0.3, 1) to be better, but I couldn't find a way to calculate 0.3 in just 4 instructions (you can't increase the number of instructions without breaking the whole application.)

I also thought that it would be nice to be able to work out different colours for bold vs. normal text. It turns out that Terminal stores two colour objects, one for bold text, one for normal text, but then initializes them to the same value. You could use slightly different shades to indicate bold colours...

As for building a patch tool, I would only consider it if I could figure out a way to specify all colours explicitly. Anything less is just "much ado about nothing"... (Plus the patch would only work on one version of Terminal.app.)

Cheers,
-dete



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