[ubuntu-mono-dark] Inconsistent main color

Hmm , not really sure what this bug is about!

What colors are you referring to? Could you be more specific about which icons you had problems with?

Ok, so ubunt-mono-dark has 358 SVG files (not counting links):

* 139 use the color #DFD8C8
* 125 use the color #EAE3D0
* 59 use the color #EAE3D1

Those "sets" are distinct, so no icon contains more than one of those colors. The remaining 35 icons are some kind of alert icons (mostly red) or deliberately use a darker beige (eg. the wireless network animation).

I definitely see a difference between #DFD8C8 and the brighter colors (see attached image), so I think #DFD8C8 should be the one to change.

I did NOT verify that all of those 139 darker icons are a real problem (I just 'grep'-ed for the colors, eg. krb-no-valid-ticket.svg uses the color with a very low opacity - so no real problem), but using 'sed' it should be easy to "batch-fix" them.

There are also 4 PNG files:

status/16/application-running.png -> uses #DFD8C8, easy to change
status/16/sound_icon.png -> hard to tell, but definitely brighter than #DFD8C8
status/22/application-running.png -> again #DFD8C8, easy to change
stock/64/album_artwork.png -> not relevant

Whatever your decision is, I now verified (visually) that there are no negative side effects when using 'sed' to replace any of those colors. I used it to change the three colors to something more distinguishable:

while read line; do sed -i "s/#dfd8c8/#0000ff/g" "$line"; done < dfd8c8.txt
while read line; do sed -i "s/#eae3d0/#00ffff/g" "$line"; done < eae3d0.txt
while read line; do sed -i "s/#eae3d1/#00ff00/g" "$line"; done < eae3d1.txt

and then checked all 358 SVGs. During that process I found eight additional icons that use different colors than the others in their sets:

./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/22/nm-stage01-connecting01.svg -> ebe4d2
./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/22/nm-stage01-connecting02.svg -> ebe4d1
./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/22/nm-stage01-connecting03.svg -> e9e4d0
./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/24/nm-stage01-connecting01.svg -> ebe4d2
./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/24/nm-stage01-connecting02.svg -> ebe4d1
./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/24/nm-stage01-connecting03.svg -> e9e4d0
./ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/battery-020.svg -> ebe4d0
./ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/battery-100-charging.svg -> ebe4d0

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If you, for example, decide to make #eae3d0 the main color, the whole fixing would boil down to running the following commands from the package's root:

while read line; do sed -i "s/#dfd8c8/#eae3d0/g" "$line"; done < dfd8c8.txt
while read line; do sed -i "s/#eae3d1/#eae3d0/g" "$line"; done < eae3d1.txt
sed -i "s/#ebe4d2/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/22/nm-stage01-connecting01.svg
sed -i "s/#ebe4d1/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/22/nm-stage01-connecting02.svg
sed -i "s/#e9e4d0/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/22/nm-stage01-connecting03.svg
sed -i "s/#ebe4d2/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/24/nm-stage01-connecting01.svg
sed -i "s/#ebe4d1/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/24/nm-stage01-connecting02.svg
sed -i "s/#e9e4d0/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/animations/24/nm-stage01-connecting03.svg
sed -i "s/#ebe4d0/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/battery-020.svg
sed -i "s/#ebe4d0/#eae3d0/g" ./ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/battery-100-charging.svg

That's it - all 358 _mono_ SVGs would use _one_ color (like ubuntu-mono-light). :-)

FWIW, I'm attaching a patch that corrects all colors in SVG files to #dfd8c8. I used sed to simply replace the following colors (touches 189 files):

#e9e4d0
#eae3d0
#eae3d1
#ebe4d0
#ebe4d1
#ebe4d2

That's simple color replacement - transparency or anything else doesn't get touched. I visually checked all 359 icons and they look fine to me, but I can understand if the sed-way is considered too risky.

The only PNG file that's not "dfd8c8-ified" is 'status/16/sound_icon.png' - I got no fix for that one.

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