DTDPFILE(4)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is the dtdpfile page — manual-name realness: dtdpfile(special file) — and it's literally the format and location of desktop palette files. No cap, that's the whole assignment. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the synopsis is exactly these lines, copied character-for-character (yes, RBG is spelled that way in the original, I'm not fixing it):

#color 1 background RBG data
#color 2 background RBG data
#color 3 background RBG data
#color 4 background RBG data
#color 5 background RBG data
#color 6 background RBG data
#color 7 background RBG data
#color 7 background RBG data

and yes, #color 7 shows up twice up there; I'm just preserving the original exactly. 💀

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

A palette is a color scheme used to color a CDE workspace and the CDE components. ✨

A palette file provides the set of eight background colors that make up a color palette.

A variety of palettes are provided with the CDE. As part of the default palette set, there are several palettes designed specifically to work well on monochrome and gray scale displays. 🌈

Style Manager is the desktop graphical user interface tool used to add, delete, or modify a color palette.

bestie, the end user should never need to act on the palette file directly. leave it to Style Manager, okay? 🫶

All palette files have a .dp suffix. The file contents are the eight colors of the palette, specified as RGB values in hexadecimal.

📁 where the palette files live

• The palette files provided with the system are located in the directory /nix/store/6waxpwr8lzfzc9ka48gl7yh60rqvlkdb-cde-2.5.3/palettes/C.
• User specific palette files are located in HOME/.dt/palettes.
• The Style Manager resource paletteDirectories can be used to specify additional directories where palettes are located.

🫧 create, modify, delete: the ~ copy lore

• When a user creates a new palette, it is located in HOME/.dt/palettes.
• System palettes that the user has modified are also located in this directory.
• When a user deletes a palette, that palette is placed in the HOME/.dt/palettes directory with a ~ prefix. If it was a user specified palette, the original file is removed.
• System palettes are never removed.
• If the user has a ~ copy of a system palette, that palette will not appear in the list of available palettes in the Style Manager.

💀 RETURN VALUE 💀

None. literally none. that's it. 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Here's an example of a palette file named Julie.dp:

#a200e500c600
#3ffc93008d77
#2d2d4e4e7600
#78008900a500
#63ea7e189500
#3ec670ec8a00
#3d157d008400
#61006d098e00

🦋 APPLICATION USAGE 🦋

None. no extra usage lore, bestie. 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• dtsession(1)
• dtstyle(1)

bye bestie 🫶 — signing off from the dtdpfile(special file) page; no separate source, version, or date was stamped on this copy, so the footer is just that manual-name energy. 💅✨