Terminal colors

[Jessidhia]

Description

The VSCode extension currently does not update the terminal colors, which is part of the workbench theming.

Benefits

Built-in terminal no longer shows unthemed default colors.

Alternative Solutions

I found a copy&paste-able theme in https://glitchbone.github.io/vscode-base16-term/#/nord but it just haphazardly assigns nord palette colors, so you get things like "green" being shown with a red color.

Example

I have ported the colors from nord's official alacritty config to vscode's config format:

{
  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "terminal.background": "#2e3440",
    "terminal.foreground": "#d8dee9",
    "terminalCursor.background": "#2e3440",
    "terminalCursor.foreground": "#d8dee9",
    "terminal.selectionBackground": "#4c566a",
    "terminal.ansiBlack": "#3b4252",
    "terminal.ansiRed": "#bf616a",
    "terminal.ansiGreen": "#a3be8c",
    "terminal.ansiYellow": "#ebcb8b",
    "terminal.ansiBlue": "#81a1c1",
    "terminal.ansiMagenta": "#b48ead",
    "terminal.ansiCyan": "#88c0d0",
    "terminal.ansiWhite": "#e5e9f0",
    "terminal.ansiBrightBlack": "#4c566a",
    "terminal.ansiBrightRed": "#bf616a",
    "terminal.ansiBrightGreen": "#a3be8c",
    "terminal.ansiBrightYellow": "#ebcb8b",
    "terminal.ansiBrightBlue": "#81a1c1",
    "terminal.ansiBrightMagenta": "#b48ead",
    "terminal.ansiBrightCyan": "#8fbcbb",
    "terminal.ansiBrightWhite": "#eceff4"
  }
}

(the cursor background/foreground look swapped here but "without swapping" the block cursor was invisible)

[bronze]

my terminal got funky too. what was supposed to be white is now black on vscode's terminal. same text on windows terminal remains white. using powerlevel10k on zsh

[svengreb]

Thank you for your patience! 🙏🏼 It‘s been a while since I had free time to focus more on Nord, and my open source projects in general, and invest time in this issue due to work-life balance.

I recently published the first “Northern Post — The state and roadmap of Nord“ announcement which includes all details about the plans and future of the Nord project, including the goal of catching up with the backlog. This issue is part of the backlog and therefore I want to triage and process it to get one step closer to a “clean state“. Read the announcement about reaching the “clean“ contribution triage state in Nord‘s discussions for more details about the goal.

Therefore it has been added to the queue in the central and single-source-of-truth project board that is also described in more detail in the roadmap announcement.

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@Jessidhia Thanks again for your contribution 🚀 The issue has been added to the queue and the review will be planned for the next iterations!