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Bug 359816

Summary: [rseterminal] Cannot invert terminal colors in the RSE terminal
Product: [Tools] Target Management Reporter: Balakrishna Rao <balakrishna.rao>
Component: RSEAssignee: dsdp.tm.rse-inbox <tm.rse-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: anna.dushistova, mober.at+eclipse
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 3.4 M7   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Bug Depends on: 378691    
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Description Balakrishna Rao CLA 2011-10-04 06:17:24 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110916-0149

When the Remote System Explorer perspective is opened and the a remote terminal is opened, only the default color option is available. Its a missing feature i believe. The foreground text color/ Background color are fixed. there ought to be an option to toggle the background color from Dark<->Light and Light<->Dark.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open eclipse
2.Open remote system explorer perspective.
3.connect to a terminal and choose launch terminal.
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-10-04 08:22:01 EDT 
What about 

   Window > Preferences > Terminal : Invert Terminal Colors

This works nicely in the Terminal widget (Window > Show View > Terminal). For some reason, it does not currently work in the RSE Terminals view.

Would this provide what you need?
Comment 2 Balakrishna Rao CLA 2011-10-04 08:40:40 EDT 
Created attachment 204506 [details]
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Currently no such option is available to invert colors. 
If you are proposing to add one such option, then you are right. Thats what is needed.

Some option to choose the Foreground Color and BackGround color has to be provided.
Comment 3 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-10-04 10:08:17 EDT 
Well the option has been there for several years, but it's associated with the standalone terminal which you apparently haven't installed.

You can install it from the simulataneous release repository (Indigo, Helios, or Galileo) from the "Mobile and Device Development" category, it's called "Target Management Terminal".

Is this an acceptable workaround for you, until an "invert" option gets available for the integrated RSE terminal ?
Comment 4 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-10-04 10:11:02 EDT 
I think that this actually depends on bug 265352, which requires adding API... today, only the terminal.ui is capable of changing the terminal fonts and colors, but not the rseterminal.
Comment 5 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2012-05-07 13:05:21 EDT 
This is now fixed with bug 378691 - the "Terminal" Preference page for inverting colors now also works in the RSE Terminal.