konsole colour scheme usability

[James Richard Tyrer]

Bram Kuijper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> anybody any idea how to edit an existing colour schema for Konsole? Some 
> usability problem it seems from the Konsole GUI. Apparently I still have 
> to go to the underlying config files. I work on KDE 3.5.3 on FreeBSD 
> 6.1-Stable
> 
> I try to change the font color of the schema "White on Black".
> I go in Konsole to Settings > configure Konsole > Schema.
> I select "White on Black" from the selection element on the left. I try 
> to change the font colour by selecting one of the "shell colours"  (it 
> is not directly obvious what the difference is between "konsole colour" 
> and "shell colour", but there must be some xterm 1980s philosophy behind 
> it which is obviously more important than the GUI).
> 
> Then I select 6 - color 4 (blue) as the new *shell* colour. Suddenly, 
> the colour indication button on the right to *konsole* colour also 
> changes to blue. What is then the difference between konsole and shell 
> colour?
> 
> Then, the nice part is the Save part. So now I press "Save", while all 
> the time 'White on Black' was the selected profile. But at that moment, 
> the colours flip back to the defaults of that colour scheme, instead of 
> saving blue as a new colour. That's not exactly saving... if colours 
> schemes shouldn't be edited, why aren't they 'grayed out'?
> 
> I try to find the config files anyway, but If anybody has suggestions 
> how to do this by the konsole gui that would be great.

I believe that this is a known problem, but you might want to check 
bugzilla.

What you can do is edit a color scheme and then store it under a *new* name.

-- 
JRT
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