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![Output from a command-line app that’s using JSDB, showing a basic string escaping issue causing a SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier error crash:
undefined:2
_['The programming language 'Swift' was created to replace what other programming language?'] = `Objective-C`;
…/@small-tech/jsdb/lib/JSTable.js:165](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/108/951/563/548/101/080/original/d99d2282b3fe97e3.png "Output from a command-line app that’s using JSDB, showing a basic string escaping issue causing a SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier error crash:
undefined:2
_['The programming language 'Swift' was created to replace what other programming language?'] = `Objective-C`;
…/@small-tech/jsdb/lib/JSTable.js:165")
@aral Off-topic: that's a beautiful theme! Is that just the terminal or the desktop's theme?
@ru Ah, thanks :) It’s the Pencil theme on Black Box terminal.
Black Box has built-in support for GNOME’s dark and light (oops, I mean “mixed” mode – https://ar.al/2022/08/17/lipstick-on-a-pig/) mode and it supports themes for each.
Aral Balkan · Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in designI just released a little tool called Lipstick on a Pig that helps keep the visual appearance of supported command-line applications in sync with the current light/dark mode setting (colour scheme) of your system in GNOME.
But why is this tool even necessary to begin with?
Let’s start at the beginning…
Getting to GNOME you The GNOME display environment1, since version 42, implements support for light and dark appearance styles (aka colour schemes).