It looks to me that you still don't understand how it's all meant to work. You found a possibility that we did not intend to have, involving dragging. This unexpected behavior that you found will be disallowed in future versions.
Here's how it's supposed to work: In the Colors tab of the Preferences window, there are 23 color buttons. (Some might only be enabled subject to some preceding checkboxes.) 16 of them are the color palette. Traditionally terminal-based apps can choose from these 16 colors to use (in addition to the default foreground/background colors). Most of the terminal-based apps still limit themselves to these 16 basic colors (although extensions exist to use many-many more), therefore by modifying the exact shade of these 16 palette entries, most (not all) of the colorful terminal-based apps will have their colors adjusted to whatever your personal preference is. The default, cursor etc. colors can also be set to any colors, independently from this palette, they don't have to be picked from this set of 16 (although you surely can repeat a color if you wish to). If you want to change any of the 23 colors, click on that color, choose the new desired value in the newly opened window, and select that. Want to change the default background? Click on default background. Solely in this newly opened window titled "Choose Terminal Background Color", without touching the previous Preferences window, choose a color to your liking. Click Select to accept this new color (or Cancel to cancel) and close this window. Want to change one of the 16 colors that terminal-based applications have easy access to? Click on the corresponding color (e.g. light green). In this newly opened window titled "Choose Palette Color 10", without touching the big Preferences window, pick your preferred shade of light green. Then close this window. Once a color picker window is opened, the main Preferences window should be inactive and not react to mouse clicks. You are not meant to have multiple color picker windows open at a time. You are not meant to be able to drag and drop colors. Future versions will enforce this desired behavior. If you need to set the exact same color for two purposes (e.g. you want the cursor color to be the exact same shade of light green as the corresponding palette color), you can use regular text copy-paste operation on their hex values, or manually select the same color or type in the same hex value. There's no particular order in which you're supposed to set the values. Set the 23 values in any order you wish to. If the documentation is lacking or is not as great as it could be, it should be updated to the desired (and soon enforced) behavior, not the unexpected (and indeed counterintuitive and broken-looking) one that you happened to have found. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2050908 Title: Prefences does not work properly on new profiles Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After creating a new profile, "preferences" does not work correctly. I want to have a selection of profiles as I log in to a variety of systems and want the background colours to quickly distinguish as to which host server a given terminal is connected to. For example I have an entry on my desktop "Window to UH" which invokes: Exec=gnome-terminal --profile=UH -e 'ssh -X -l jcollins -e none star.herts.ac.uk' I want UH profile to hack a background of light blue and use a distinctive font and size. However after creating the profile and setting about changing the font and colours, I find that the font selection is greyed out and attempts to change the colour selections fail. I can work around this by using "dconf-editor", working through to the profile and changing the font and colours "by hand" but this is unwieldy. There would seem to be a bug in the preferences menu entry introduced between 20.10 and 22.04. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.44.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-14.14~22.04.1-generic 6.5.3 Uname: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Jan 23 12:40:19 2024 InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-01-04 (18 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230807.2) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2050908/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
