About the types of colors used in wal

[EldoDebug]

hi
I am developing a non kde desktop environment to use material you
So one thing I was wondering, could you tell me the name of the color you use in wal?

Example:
background = Surface
foreground = OnSurface
color0 = Surface...

I couldn't read and understand the code so I hope you can help me

[luisbocanegra]

Only some colors are taken directly from material you, the rest are taken from either the top ranked colors, primary or secondary tones.

"special": {
        "background": "surface",
        "foreground": "surface + tones_Secondary[90] blended by .98",
        "cursor": "onSurface"
    }

The rest come from the top ranked colors (best) or, if best are less than 7, by iterating best, tones_primary[tone] and tones_tertiary[tone] where tone (lightness) increases by 8 every iteration. This ensures we always get terminal color scheme even if the wallpaper is a single color.

But what I run instead most of the time is a custom_colors_list for the seven ANSI colors which replaces the "best" colors from the image

kde-material-you-colors/src/kde_material_you_colors/schemeconfigs.py

Line 25 in e3e2904

if custom_colors_list is not None:

Code that generates the color scheme starts here, a blending to ensure contrast is applied too

kde-material-you-colors/src/kde_material_you_colors/schemeconfigs.py

Line 63 in e3e2904

for x in range(7):

The resultant colors dictionary is generated here

kde-material-you-colors/src/kde_material_you_colors/schemeconfigs.py

Line 580 in e3e2904

self._wal_dark_scheme = {

There are some keys like backgroundIntense and colors past color15 because they are used for Konsole but are not used by pywal

self._wal_dark_scheme = {
            "wallpaper": wallpaper_data,
            "alpha": "100",
            "special": {
                "background": pywal_colors_dark[0],
                "backgroundIntense": blendColors(
                    tones_neutral[8], colors_dark["primary"], 0.0
                ),
                "backgroundFaint": blendColors(
                    tones_neutral[8], colors_dark["primary"], 0.35
                ),
                # Normal, ansi 39
                "foreground": blendColors(
                    pywal_colors_dark[0], tones_secondary[90], 0.98
                ),
                # bold, ansi 39
                "foregroundIntense": tones_secondary[90],
                # faint, ansi 39
                "foregroundFaint": blendColors(
                    pywal_colors_dark[0], tones_secondary[90], 0.88
                ),
                "cursor": colors_dark["onSurface"],
            },
            "colors": {
                "color0": pywal_colors_dark[0],
                "color1": pywal_colors_dark[1],
                "color2": pywal_colors_dark[2],
                "color3": pywal_colors_dark[3],
                "color4": pywal_colors_dark[4],
                "color5": pywal_colors_dark[5],
                "color6": pywal_colors_dark[6],
                "color7": pywal_colors_dark[7],
                "color8": pywal_colors_dark_intense[0],
                "color9": pywal_colors_dark_intense[1],
                "color10": pywal_colors_dark_intense[2],
                "color11": pywal_colors_dark_intense[3],
                "color12": pywal_colors_dark_intense[4],
                "color13": pywal_colors_dark_intense[5],
                "color14": pywal_colors_dark_intense[6],
                "color15": pywal_colors_dark_intense[7],
                "color16": pywal_colors_dark_faint[0],
                "color17": pywal_colors_dark_faint[1],
                "color18": pywal_colors_dark_faint[2],
                "color19": pywal_colors_dark_faint[3],
                "color20": pywal_colors_dark_faint[4],
                "color21": pywal_colors_dark_faint[5],
                "color22": pywal_colors_dark_faint[6],
                "color23": pywal_colors_dark_faint[7],
            },
        }

It's a mess but is what worked for me.

[EldoDebug]

I'm fully understand!!
It's a very clear and wonderful system
Thank you so much!