[konsole] [Bug 435309] New: 3b06b6f22 makes selection near invisible with some foreground/background color combinations

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Please use search for markers
I understand and agree that this is a bug that needs to be fixed, but don’t
use text selection to mark the spot where you are.

Text search is better suited for that - or, we can create a way to actually
use text markers with different colors in the future.


On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 12:14 Duncan <bugzilla_noreply at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435309
>
>             Bug ID: 435309
>            Summary: 3b06b6f22 makes selection near invisible with some
>                     foreground/background color combinations
>            Product: konsole
>            Version: master
>           Platform: Gentoo Packages
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: REPORTED
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>           Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
>           Reporter: 1i5t5.duncan at cox.net
>   Target Milestone: ---
>
> Created attachment 137307
>   --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=137307&action=edit
> near-invisible selection
>
> See the attached screenshots.
>
> Unfortunately, after 3b06b6f22 (blend foreground/background instead of
> using
> reverse video for selection), with some foreground/background combinations
> the
> selection is now very close to invisible.
>
> Reasonably standard Linux color-scheme here, so normally black background
> with
> white text, which is fine.  But take a look at the attached gentoo portage
> package manager screenshots (the tail end of an emerge --ask --empty-tree
> konsole).  Without that commit reverted the color-coded white text on blue
> background of the package names makes the selection near invisible.
>
> The problem is that I tend to use selection as a way to mark my place, say
> when
> I have the kde live-git package update list displayed in one konsole
> window,
> while checking git logs for various packages in another konsole window.
> When
> there's well over a screen full of package updates, I'll
> double-click-select a
> package near where I am in the list so I can easily find it and pick out
> the
> next git log I want to run.
>
> Obviously, if I'm using selection as a marker and I can't see where that
> selection-marker is at a glance, it rather defeats the purpose.
>
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