Bug#931744: gnome-terminal: "Show bold text in bright colours" has no effect

[Egmont Koblinger]

Hi,

The changes in color handling were intentional. There are two things
two talk about:

Bold variant of the default color. This used to be an autogenerated
brighter color using a hardwired formula (which in case of Solarized
was accidentally almost the same as another color of this palette),
but now it's the same color by default (with a bolder font weight).
You can still pick any color under "Bold color" in the Preferences.

Bold variant of the first eight palette colors. The config option
"Show bold text in bright colors" corresponds to these, as it's
suggested by this option being indented, under the "Palette" section.
I agree it's not absolutely clear that it doesn't correspond to the
default color. I'm not sure how to phrase it better, though.

See these for more context:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910078
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762247
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728600
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793152
https://askubuntu.com/q/1156880/398785


cheers,
egmont