Re: Colors on MC 4.7.0.1 are *really* a mess, seconded

[Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:30:17 -0700 (PDT)
Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601 yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mc user ever since the beginning. Running on Debian Sid.
> Which upgraded mc to 4.7.0.1.
>
> And the colors are a *mess* as I reported to Debian userlist:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/04/msg00315.html
>
> Nothing now works as before. As noted on this list:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2010-March/msg00028.html
> and a recent Debian bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567119
>
> My color scheme was in the ini file:
>
> [Colors]
> base_color=executable=blue,white:viewunderline=yellow,black:normal=red,white:selected=lightgrey,lightgreen:marked=cyan,black:markselect=white,lightgreen:directory=black,white:link=red,white:device=lightgrey,black:special=cyan,black
>
> That translates in 4.7.0.1 to something that gives an instantaneous splitting headache.

  Try this skin Hugo.

  put it in ~/.mc/skins

  call mc with: mc --skin=special

  I **think** it's what you want.

[skin]
    description=Dark Far skin

[Lines]
    lefttop=â
    righttop=â
    centertop=â
    centerbottom=â
    leftbottom=â
    rightbottom=â
    leftmiddle=â
    rightmiddle=â
    centermiddle=â
    horiz=â
    vert=â
    thinhoriz=â
    thinvert=â

[core]
    _default_=black;white
    selected=black;cyan
    marked=yellow;black
    markselect=yellow;cyan
    gauge=white;black
    input=black;cyan
    reverse=lightgray;black

[dialog]
    _default_=brightcyan;blue
    dfocus=blue;cyan
    dhotnormal=white;
    dhotfocus=white;cyan

[error]
    _default_=white;red
    errdhotnormal=yellow;red
    errdhotfocus=yellow;lightgray

[filehighlight]
    directory=gray;
    executable=brightmagenta;
    symlink=lightred;
    stalelink=brightred;
    device=brightmagenta;
    special=black;
    core=red;
    temp=gray;
    archive=brightgreen;
    doc=brown;
    source=cyan;
    media=green;
    graph=brightcyan;
    database=brightred;

[menu]
    _default_=lightgray;blue
    menuhot=white;blue
    menusel=black;cyan
    menuhotsel=white;cyan
    menuinactive=black;white

[help]
    _default_=black;lightgray
    helpitalic=red;lightgray
    helpbold=blue;lightgray
    helplink=black;cyan
    helpslink=yellow;blue

[editor]
    _default_=lightgray;black
    editbold=yellow;brightgreen
    editmarked=black;white
    editwhitespace=brightblue;black
    linestate=white;cyan
    bookmark=white;red
    bookmarkfound=black;green

[viewer]
    viewunderline=brightred;black

[buttonbar]
    hotkey=red;white
    button=black;white

[widget-common]
    sort-sign-up=â
    sort-sign-down=â

[widget-panel]
    hiddenfiles-sign-show  = â
    hiddenfiles-sign-hide  = â
    history-prev-item-sign = â
    history-next-item-sign = â
    history-show-list-sign = â

[widget-scollbar]
    first-vert-char=â
    last-vert-char=â
    first-horiz-char=Â
    last-horiz-char=Â
    current-char=â
    background-char=â





-- 
Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>