about

rainbow is a ruby/gtk program for visualizing colors in text input. It is useful for looking at .Xdefaults, css files, GIMP palettes, theme files, or anything that has hex colors in text.

news

Wed Feb 4 22:20:46 EST 2009

Nearly ready to release 1.0.

screenshots

download

rainbow is currently pre-1.0. You can clone the git source by running: git clone git://code.l3ib.org/rainbow.git

usage

To install: sudo ruby setup.rb

To run: rainbow file or: rainbow < file or: cat file | rainbow

known issues

In order for drag and drop to work properly, you need to have built a recent ruby-gnome2 bindings yourself. There is a bug in the last released version that has been fixed in trunk.

contact

rainbow is written by Dave Foster. Bugs, insults, etc should be directed to daf at minuslab dot net. Or, look for 'm4re' on freenode, in #l3ib.