I like very much Ethan Schoonover Solarized color palette. So I decided write a guide, howto get Solarized colors to most commonly used Linux terminals (Gnome-Terminal, Konsole, XFCE Terminal, Mate-Terminal), Text editors (Gedit, Vim) and IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans). These are not my projects, so the greatest honor belongs, of course, these projects owners and Ethan Schoonover.

Color Schemes for Terminals

Instead of configuring colors separately for both Vim and the rest of the terminal, limiting Vim’s color scheme to 16 ANSI colors allows setting all color preferences in the terminal’s theme.

I built a vim / neovim color scheme that follows your terminal's colors scheme.