X-Git-Url: https://v.licheni.net/stack/conf/irssi-colors-solarized.git/blobdiff_plain/51be4e3fdf741812ed749e9b0f26a100e9913fcc..716c7d601974a6cb77eee8cf4a36fd07a9ba62d2:/README.mkd diff --git a/README.mkd b/README.mkd index e38ca8c..deff53b 100644 --- a/README.mkd +++ b/README.mkd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Solarized Color Theme for irssi =============================== -Initially created by Huy Z \, this is a +Initially created by [huyz](https://github.com/huyz), this is a repository of themes for the [irssi] IRC chat client that support Ethan Schoonover’s [Solarized] color scheme. @@ -27,15 +27,16 @@ you happen to find yourself on a terminal where the Solarized palette has not been set up, you won't have elements become invisible or incrediby hard to read. -Thus, this theme has been designed with these 4 palettes in mind: +Thus, this theme was designed with these 4 palettes in mind: -- Solarized Dark: "universal" works best with this scheme -- Solarized Light: "universal" works with this scheme almost as well as with - Solarized Dark (you probably won't notice the difference, but if you do, it - could be optimized slightly by switching the theme's use of some of the - Solarized base colors) -- Default dark-background terminal colors -- Default light-background terminal colors +- Solarized Dark: the theme works best when the terminal emulator is + set to this scheme +- Solarized Light: the theme works, when the terminal emulator is set + to this scheme, almost as well as with Solarized Dark (you probably won't + notice the difference, but if you do, it could be optimized slightly by + switching the theme's use of some of the Solarized base colors) +- Default terminal ANSI Colors with a dark background +- Default terminal ANSI Colors with a light background This theme was designed to be clean and functional, starting from the default theme distributed with irssi. Colors are strictly used for functionality and @@ -83,10 +84,12 @@ If you have come across these themes via the [irssi-only repository] on github, you may want to check the main [Solarized repository] to see if there is an official theme. -At some point, the [irssi-only repository] may be kept in sync with the main -[Solarized repository] and would then only be preserved separately for -installation convenience only. At this time, issues, bug reports, changelogs -are to be reported at the [irssi-only repository]. +In the future, the [irssi-only repository] may be kept in sync with the main +[Solarized repository], but the [irssi-only repository] may be left separate +for installation convenience and to include the latest improvements. + +At this time, issues, bug reports, changelogs are to be reported at the +[irssi-only repository]. [Solarized repository]: https://github.com/altercation/solarized [irssi-only repository]: https://github.com/huyz/irssi-colors-solarized @@ -230,7 +233,7 @@ Solarized orange. So in order for irssi to display the Solarized palette, you have to set your Terminal emulator's color settings to the Solarized palette. The [Solarized repository] includes theme settings for some popular terminal emulators as -well as Xdefaults; or you can download them from the official [Solarized] +well as Xresources; or you can download them from the official [Solarized] homepage. If you use the irssi themes *without* having changed your emulator's palette, you will get a strange selection of colors that may be hard to read.