Support for full color palette

[ad-si]

Why is there only support for 16 colors?
The full palette would be cool! 😁

[quchen]

There’s not enough supply or demand for this feature. ;-)

[ad-si]

😭

[quchen]

You could easily implement this though if you needed it! Just extend data Color by a field RGB Word8 Word8 Word8 and follow the compiler warnings to implement it. ansi-terminal has support for RGB SGR codes (link), so all in all this should not be a hard thing to implement.

I’m very much open to a pull request if you decided to implement this, but at the moment I’m afraid I don’t have the time myself.

[istathar]

Would you still be amenable to a patch in this direction? I just asked the same question and came to the same https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ansi-terminal-0.10.1/docs/System-Console-ANSI-Types.html#v:SetRGBColor constructor which perhaps we can pass through instead? (I note that it's Colour Float there, which is interesting)

[quchen]

Yes, I’m open to it! I’d like to keep the feature small though, without too many color management bells and whistles.

[spacekitteh]

If @afcowie hasn't got the patch done, I'll do one over the next couple of days.

[istathar]

@spacekitteh haven't had a chance yet, sorry.

[sjakobi]

Reopening due to the renewed interest.

[quchen]

Re-closing due to renewed disinterest ;-)

A PR implementing this would still be welcome though.

[sjakobi]

Re-re-opening since there is a PR: #224.