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Bug 335358

Summary: [terminal] Terminal colors don't match expectations
Product: [Tools] Target Management Reporter: Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Component: TerminalAssignee: Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: 3.3 M5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Bug Blocks: 335411    
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Patch fixing Terminal color definition none

Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-01-25 13:21:49 EST 
As per the ANSI terminal spec,

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansi_terminal

most terminal programs display colors way darker than the TM terminal. As a result, terminal display is not as readable as it should be.

Also, the definition of "magenta" is incorrect in the TM terminal and "intense" colors don't display intense (just the font is boldface).

Attached patch rectifies this, adopting the xterm color definitions which seem to work well in both "default" (white background) as well as "inverse" (black background) mode.
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-01-25 13:22:28 EST 
Created attachment 187555 [details]
Patch fixing Terminal color definition
Comment 2 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-01-25 13:23:32 EST 
Fixed.