Hi, When it comes to Solarized, there are 18 color slots of interest: - the default background and foreground, - and the 16 palette colors.
The Solarized homepage clearly defines the 16 palette colors, including their mapping to the 0-15 indices. It does _not_ define two different mappings, it does _not_ define a Dark and a Light color palette. (It defines two different recommended ways of picking colors from that one palette.) In this regard, as per the linked upstream bug, the new behavior is the correct. The old Light palette, where indices 0 and 8 were dark, 7 and 15 were bright, and the rest of the gray entries were also reversed, was incorrect, something nowhere defined on the Solarized homepage. (I downgraded to now 3.5 to test it. It comes directly from Sakura, not some underlying library.) The default background and foreground colors aren't defined by the standard, since Solarized defines 16 colors only (and their mapping to the 16 numbered color slots) and doesn't know anything about the concept of "default fg and bg color" in terminals. Most terminal emulators offer two of the 16 Solarized colors for these purposes, as it's implicitly suggested by Solarized's homepage, and this is where the Dark and Light variants differ. So the question, and accordingly the bug is: Does Sakura's Options -> More -> Set palette menu intend to set the default background and foreground colors? - If yes then it's a bug that it doesn't do so. - If no then it's really unfortunate (read: bug) that it offer two equivalent schemes named "Solarized dark" and "Solarized light" rather than just simply one called "Solarized". cheers, e.
