Carry the colour scheme into terminals and the editor

The scheme switch already reached everything that reads
org.freedesktop.appearance -- GTK4, Qt6, Chromium, Electron -- because
ColorScheme.qml writes the gsettings key those all watch. Applications
carrying their own palettes did not follow, so choosing light mode left
the two windows actually used all day, kitty and neovim, still dark.

kitty: the 32 colours move out of kitty.conf into themes/, and kitty.conf
ends with `include current-theme.conf`. The generated file is machine
state rather than configuration, so it is gitignored and link-dotfiles
seeds it on install -- otherwise a fresh checkout starts by complaining
about a missing include. Running terminals are re-coloured in place over
their control sockets; a restart is not needed.

neovim: reads settings.json directly, since it neither watches the portal
nor keeps a socket open. Tokyo Night ships Day in the same family as
Moon, so light mode keeps the editor's identity instead of turning it
into a different-looking application. The existing readability overrides
were written against Moon and are now dark-only -- applied to Day they
would have put light grey on a light background, the same problem they
exist to fix, inverted. Light mode gets one override of its own:
tokyonight's shipped comment colour measures 2.54:1 against Day's
background, under the 3:1 floor for secondary text, so it is replaced
with 3.25:1 -- readable, still dimmer than Normal's 4.52:1.

An editor already open when the scheme flips re-applies on FocusGained,
which is cheap and fires exactly when the mismatch would be noticed.

Verified both directions: kitty re-coloured 4 live terminals, and neovim
starts as tokyonight-day with background=light and tokyonight-moon with
background=dark.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-18 07:47:51 -04:00
parent 5e6dc9e533
commit 19063a3e02
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@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ font_size 14.0
#: Cursor customization {{{
cursor #c8d3f5
#: Default cursor color. If set to the special value none the cursor
#: will be rendered with a "reverse video" effect. It's color will be
@@ -193,7 +192,6 @@ cursor #c8d3f5
#: precedence. Also, the cursor colors are modified if the cell
#: background and foreground colors have very low contrast.
cursor_text_color #111325
#: The color of text under the cursor. If you want it rendered with
#: the background color of the cell underneath instead, use the
@@ -312,7 +310,6 @@ cursor_shape block
#: robustly with the ever-changing sea of bugs that is Cocoa is too
#: much effort.
url_color #4fd6be
# url_style curly
#: The color and style for highlighting URLs on mouse-over. url_style
@@ -734,12 +731,10 @@ window_border_width 1pt
#: placed centrally. A value of top-left means the padding will be
#: only at the bottom and right edges.
active_border_color #82aaff
#: The color for the border of the active window. Set this to none to
#: not draw borders around the active window.
inactive_border_color #2f334d
#: The color for the border of inactive windows.
@@ -960,16 +955,11 @@ tab_powerline_style round
#: Template to use for active tabs. If not specified falls back to
#: tab_title_template.
active_tab_foreground #1e2030
active_tab_background #82aaff
# active_tab_font_style bold-italic
inactive_tab_foreground #c8d3f5
inactive_tab_background #42465a
# inactive_tab_font_style normal
#: Tab bar colors and styles.
tab_bar_background #222436
#: Background color for the tab bar. Defaults to using the terminal
#: background color.
@@ -983,8 +973,8 @@ tab_bar_margin_color none
#: Color scheme {{{
foreground #c8d3f5
background #222436
include current-theme.conf
#: The foreground and background colors.
@@ -1043,8 +1033,6 @@ dim_opacity 1
#: How much to dim text that has the DIM/FAINT attribute set. One
#: means no dimming and zero means fully dimmed (i.e. invisible).
selection_foreground #2d3f76
selection_background #c8d3f5
#: The foreground and background colors for text selected with the
#: mouse. Setting both of these to none will cause a "reverse video"
@@ -1060,47 +1048,29 @@ selection_background #c8d3f5
#: dull and bright version, for the first 16 colors. You can set the
#: remaining 240 colors as color16 to color255.
color0 #1b1d2b
color8 #444a73
#: black
color1 #ff757f
color9 #ff757f
#: red
color2 #a5e8b5
color10 #a5e8b5
#: green
color3 #ffc777
color11 #ffc777
#: yellow
color4 #82aaff
color12 #82aaff
#: blue
color5 #c099ff
color13 #c099ff
#: magenta
color6 #86e1fc
color14 #86e1fc
#: cyan
color7 #828bb8
color15 #c8d3f5
#: white
color16 #ff966c
color17 #c53b53
# mark1_foreground black