Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 10:05:44 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 191652] New: Text console - true color (24 bit, 16 million colors) support Message-ID: <bug-191652-15@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191652 Bug ID: 191652 Summary: Text console - true color (24 bit, 16 million colors) support Product: Base System Version: 11.0-CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: Needs Triage Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: standards Assignee: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Reporter: anton.kochkov@gmail.com Here's a test case: printf "\x1b[38;2;255;100;0mTRUECOLOR\x1b[0m\n" * or http://github.com/robertknight/konsole/tree/master/tests/color-spaces.pl * or https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/tree/perf/img.sh?h=vte-0-36 According to Wikipedia[1], this is only supported by xterm and konsole. It's a common confusion about terminal colors... Actually we have this: * plain ascii * ansi escape codes (16 color codes with bold/italic and background) * 256 color palette (216 colors+16gray + ansi) (colors are 24bit) * 24bit true color (888 colors (aka 16 milion) The 256 color palete is configured at start, and it's a 666 cube of colors, each of them defined as a 24bit (888 rgb) color. This means that current support can only display 256 different colors in the terminal, while truecolor means that you can display 16 milion different colors at the same time. Truecolor escape codes doesnt uses a color palete. It just specifies the color itself. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_color Here are terminals discussions ============================== Now supporting truecolor ------------------------ * st (from suckless) - http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1307/16688.html * konsole - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107487 * iterm2 - https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=218 * all libvte based terminals: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704449 * Gnome Terminal * sakura * Terminator * Lilyterm * ROXTerm * evilvte * Termit * Tilda * stjerm * tinyterm * GTKTerm2 Parsing ANSI color sequences, but approximating them to 256 palette ------------------------------------------------------------------- * xterm * mlterm - http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31828705 NOT supporting truecolor ------------------------ * urxvt - http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2013q3/001826.html * Terminlogy (E17) - https://phab.enlightenment.org/T746 * mrxvt - https://sourceforge.net/p/materm/feature-requests/41/ * aterm - https://sourceforge.net/p/aterm/feature-requests/23/ * fbcon (linux kernel) - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79551 Here are another console programs discussions ============================================= * mutt - http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3674 * mc - http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3145#comment:1 * s-lang library - http://lists.jedsoft.org/lists/slang-users/2014/0000001.html * ncurses library - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2013-10/msg00007.html * mcabber - https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/issue/126/support-for-true-color-16-millions-colors * emacs - http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/RFC-Add-tty-True-Color-support-td299962.html * vim - https://bitbucket.org/ZyX_I/vim/commits/branch/24-bit-xterm * tig - https://github.com/jonas/tig/issues/227 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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