Flatpak version does not follow user preferences for terminal colors

[jeremypw]

What Happened?

The color palette in the terminal pane differs from the native Terminal app and is generally less readable.

Steps to Reproduce

Run Flatpak and look at terminal pane.

Expected Behavior

The terminal pane should use the same colors as the Terminal app (when running on elementaryos at least) or failing that use readable colors.

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

Hardware Info

No response

[danirabbit]

This is expected. Apps can't reach into each other preferences in the sandbox

[jeremypw]

@danirabbit I thought it might be possible to use the Settings portal but terminal palette is not one of the standardised settings exposed in the freedesktop spec it seems. Presumably it could be exposed in the elementaryos implementation but maybe you don't want to do that. Otherwise the palette(s) would need to be hard-coded into the app I guess. At least it should be possible to respect dark/light and normal/high-contrast preferences using the standard portal.