MC - Midnight Commander, and an attempt to theme 

I like the KDE's Breeze theme, I also like the  dark 'Nordic Green' colour scheme, sadly I have not been happy with how they integrate with my file manager of choice - MC 

Midnight Commander is what some will think of as a throwback to a previous time, I happen to think its a freakin' great file manager, and a  powerful one at that.

Up until  today I have been using the Moderin256 skin as it was the closes match to the  the mix of Breeze + Nordic I could find. 

Today I use my custom theme, inspired by Breeze + Nordic,  its a '16M' aka "truecolour" skin so may not work in the TTY, but I think it looks great in X (yes, I am biased) 

I based the theme on 'Seasons - Winter16M' a theme found in the default install of MC

I have tried to keep the colours use by the file types  readable as hopefully seen above.

The help pages use both green and contrasting purple, which I don't think causes too mush visual distress,  Error Boxes are presented in the same contrasting purple.

My aim was to keep the menu and selection boxes clean and comfortable to read. 

I present my theme below for you to use and improve, simply save the text below as an .ini and place it in ~/.local/share/mc/skins/ then select the theme from within MC's appearance menu 

# The Four Seasons skins demonstrate how to use direct RGB true colors.
## As a prerequisite, you will need:
#   1) Midnight Commander version 4.8.19 or newer.
#   2) Midnight Commander being compiled against S-Lang (rather than ncurses).
#   3) S-Lang version 2.3.1 or newer.
#   4) A 64-bit operating system. (Future S-Lang version 3 will support
#      true colors on 32-bit OSes too. Until then, you can install a patched
#      S-Lang and compile MC against it by following the instructions at
#      http://midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc-devel/slang-16Mcolors-32bits.)
#   5) A terminal emulator that supports true colors, such as e.g.
#      GNOME Terminal and other VTE derivatives, KDE's Konsole,
#      iTerm2 for macOS. See https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 for a
#      more exhaustive and up to date list.
#   6) The TERM environment variable describing 256 color support, e.g.:
#        export TERM=xterm-256color
#      or inside screen or tmux:
#        export TERM=screen-256color
#      Verify by running tput colors, it should report 256.
#   7) The COLORTERM env variable set to either "truecolor" or "24bit", e.g.:
#        export COLORTERM=truecolor
#
# True colors are referred to by the standard #rrggbb or #rgb notation, the
# short form is interpreted by doubling each hex digit.
#
# In addition to these the 256 palette colors are still available, and
# obviously so are the attributes. See the sand256.ini skin file for details.

[skin]
    # Dark-Green theme inspired by Nordic,
    description = My-MC – RGB
    truecolors = true

[Lines]
    horiz = ─
    vert = │
    lefttop = ┌
    righttop = ┐
    leftbottom = └
    rightbottom = ┘
    topmiddle = ┬
    bottommiddle = ┴
    leftmiddle = ├
    rightmiddle = ┤
    cross = ┼
    dhoriz = ═
    dvert = ║
    dlefttop = ╔
    drighttop = ╗
    dleftbottom = ╚
    drightbottom = ╝
    dtopmiddle = ╤
    dbottommiddle = ╧
    dleftmiddle = ╟
    drightmiddle = ╢

[aliases]
    Main = #3b4252
    MainFg = #d4d4d4
    MarkedFg = #b58c2d
    HeaderFg = MarkedFg
    Selected = #6d8f8e
    Dialog = Selected
    DialogFocus = #afbad8
    Input = Main
    PaleFg = #749997
    ShadowFg = #6d8f8e
    ShadowBg = #415655
    Error = #660099
    ErrorFocus = #1f2434
    Top = #6d8f8e
    MenuActive = Top
    MenuSelected = Bottom
    Bottom = #415655
    BottomNumber = #1a2222
    BottomNumberFg = #e4e3ed
    Help = Selected
    HelpBoldFg = ErrorFocus
    HelpItalicFg = Error
    HelpLinkFg = #51007a
    EditorLineNumber = #f1f0f6
    EditorWhitespace = EditorLineNumber
    EditorRightMargin = EditorLineNumber
    EditorBookmark = Bottom
    EditorFindAll = Top
    EditorVoid = BottomNumber
    EditorFrameFg = MainFg
    EditorFrameActiveFg = MarkedFg
    EditorFrameDragFg = #fff
    ViewerBoldFg = HelpBoldFg
    ViewerUnderlinedFg = HelpLinkFg
    ViewerSelected = EditorBookmark
    DiffAdd = #80e080
    DiffChangedLine = Selected
    DiffGap = #e08080

[core]
    _default_ = MainFg;Main
    selected = #000;Selected
    marked = MarkedFg;;bold
    markselect = MarkedFg;Selected;bold
    gauge = ;DialogFocus
    input = #afbad8;Input
    inputunchanged = PaleFg;Input
    inputmark = #000;DialogFocus
    disabled = PaleFg;Dialog
    reverse = #000;Bottom
    commandlinemark = #000;DialogFocus
    header = HeaderFg
    shadow = ShadowFg;ShadowBg

[dialog]
    _default_ = #000;Dialog
    dfocus = ;DialogFocus
    dhotnormal = ;;underline
    dhotfocus = ;DialogFocus;underline
    dtitle = ;;bold

[error]
    _default_ = #fff;Error
    errdfocus = ;ErrorFocus
    errdhotnormal = ;;underline
    errdhotfocus = ;ErrorFocus;underline
    errdtitle = ;;bold

[filehighlight]
    directory =
    executable = #00af00
    symlink = #f76058
    hardlink =
    stalelink = #d70000
    device = #87af5f
    special = #afaf5f
    core = #d7af00
    temp = #9e9e9e
    archive = #0089bf
    doc = #da71e1
    source = #af5f00
    media = #0087d7
    graph = #00afaf
    database = #d7875f

[menu]
    _default_ = #000;MenuActive
    menusel = ;MenuSelected
    menuhot = ;;underline
    menuhotsel = ;MenuSelected;underline
    menuinactive = ;Top

[popupmenu]
    _default_ = #000;Dialog
    menusel = ;DialogFocus
    menutitle = ;;bold

[buttonbar]
    hotkey = BottomNumberFg;BottomNumber
    button = #000;Bottom

[statusbar]
    _default_ = #000;Top

[help]
    _default_ = #000;Help
    helpbold = HelpBoldFg;;bold
    helpitalic = HelpItalicFg;;italic
    helplink = HelpLinkFg;;underline
    helpslink = Help;HelpLinkFg

[editor]
    editbold = MarkedFg;;bold
    editmarked = ;Selected
    editwhitespace = ;EditorWhitespace
    editlinestate = #000;EditorLineNumber
    bookmark = #000;EditorBookmark
    bookmarkfound = #000;EditorFindAll
    editrightmargin = ;EditorRightMargin
    editbg = ;EditorVoid
    editframe = EditorFrameFg
    editframeactive = EditorFrameActiveFg
    editframedrag = EditorFrameDragFg

[viewer]
    viewbold = ViewerBoldFg;;bold
    viewunderline = ViewerUnderlinedFg;;underline
    viewselected = #000;ViewerSelected

[diffviewer]
    added = ;DiffAdd
    changedline = ;DiffChangedLine
    changednew = ;DiffAdd
    changed = ;DiffGap
    removed = ;DiffGap
    error = #fff;Error

[widget-panel]
    sort-up-char = ▴
    sort-down-char = ▾
    hiddenfiles-show-char = •
    hiddenfiles-hide-char = ○
    history-prev-item-char = ◂
    history-next-item-char = ▸
    history-show-list-char = ▾
    filename-scroll-left-char = ◂
    filename-scroll-right-char = ▸

[widget-scollbar]
    first-vert-char = ▴
    last-vert-char = ▾
    first-horiz-char = ◂
    last-horiz-char = ▸
    current-char = ■
    background-char = ▒

[widget-editor]
    window-state-char = ↕
    window-close-char = ✕