Hi Guys,
I'm thinking about updating the Extras page (geany.org/Download/Extras) and I was wondering what to do with the current listing of colour schemes.
One of the colour scheme links (dark color scheme) doesn't work, it just points to a domain placeholder page. I'll remove this for sure though I can't notify Amir Saffari since there's no contact info[1]. This has been asked about in the user mailing list[2] though I didn't see it at the time.
The other other themes (dark color scheme, vibrant ink, dark tango, and oblivion2) seem to be great for the versions of Geany and languages they support, but since all of the recent changes to the filedefs and color schemes, they will probably do a disservice to the users if used with newer versions. What's more, since I've ported them over to the geany-themes/named styles/color schemes stuff, they no longer even need to be maintained separately. With porting to geany-themes, they all got updated to work with recent Geany versions and support for every language starting with Geany 0.20.
So what I propose is to move these links (and also the online color scheme generator) to a sub-page or sub-section for "legacy" color schemes, with a description about when to use which colour schemes with which versions. This way people who use older Geany versions can still access them but they won't be the "default" schemes users will find. I'd also like to put descriptions, screenshots and links to the geany-themes color schemes on the Extras page. If time allows I plan to also extend the wiki page[4] to include information about the older colour schemes and the transition/version stuff.
To Jason, Bernhard and Duncan (and anyone else), if you would like to contribute to the geany-themes project, send me an email for commit access or send pull requests through Github. It would even be great if you could check out your respective themes to make sure I didn't brutalize too much while porting them.
Any thoughts, objections, comments, or otherwise?
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] Also no contact info for Oblivion2 and Tango Dark maintainer but the links still work on the Extras page [2] http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2011-April/006820.html [3] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes [4] http://wiki.geany.org/themes/start
FWIW, I'm using 0.21 on windows with the darker color schemes, tango and oblivion and one other, and it's working ok ... me gusta!!
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm thinking about updating the Extras page (geany.org/Download/Extras) and I was wondering what to do with the current listing of colour schemes.
One of the colour scheme links (dark color scheme) doesn't work, it just points to a domain placeholder page. I'll remove this for sure though I can't notify Amir Saffari since there's no contact info[1]. This has been asked about in the user mailing list[2] though I didn't see it at the time.
The other other themes (dark color scheme, vibrant ink, dark tango, and oblivion2) seem to be great for the versions of Geany and languages they support, but since all of the recent changes to the filedefs and color schemes, they will probably do a disservice to the users if used with newer versions. What's more, since I've ported them over to the geany-themes/named styles/color schemes stuff, they no longer even need to be maintained separately. With porting to geany-themes, they all got updated to work with recent Geany versions and support for every language starting with Geany 0.20.
So what I propose is to move these links (and also the online color scheme generator) to a sub-page or sub-section for "legacy" color schemes, with a description about when to use which colour schemes with which versions. This way people who use older Geany versions can still access them but they won't be the "default" schemes users will find. I'd also like to put descriptions, screenshots and links to the geany-themes color schemes on the Extras page. If time allows I plan to also extend the wiki page[4] to include information about the older colour schemes and the transition/version stuff.
To Jason, Bernhard and Duncan (and anyone else), if you would like to contribute to the geany-themes project, send me an email for commit access or send pull requests through Github. It would even be great if you could check out your respective themes to make sure I didn't brutalize too much while porting them.
Any thoughts, objections, comments, or otherwise?
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] Also no contact info for Oblivion2 and Tango Dark maintainer but the links still work on the Extras page [2] http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2011-April/006820.html [3] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes [4] http://wiki.geany.org/themes/start _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
Yeah, the filedefs were committed after 0.21.
The problem with those old color schemes though is that you'll be missing some things that were added to filedefs since those old themes were last synchronized with Geany's (unless you added the keys to each filedef manually). A few things come to mind; comment_single key, some lexer_properties, group copying, keywords updates and fixes, and probably some other stuff.
After the next release, I don't think those old-style color schemes will be compatible with the new default filedefs and color schemes. People's modified filedefs/old-style color schemes will still work but I don't think the new default.conf or alt.conf color schemes will work.
Cheers, Matthew Brush
On 12/07/2011 06:55 PM, Sean Wolfe wrote:
FWIW, I'm using 0.21 on windows with the darker color schemes, tango and oblivion and one other, and it's working ok ... me gusta!!
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Matthew Brushmbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm thinking about updating the Extras page (geany.org/Download/Extras) and I was wondering what to do with the current listing of colour schemes.
One of the colour scheme links (dark color scheme) doesn't work, it just points to a domain placeholder page. I'll remove this for sure though I can't notify Amir Saffari since there's no contact info[1]. This has been asked about in the user mailing list[2] though I didn't see it at the time.
The other other themes (dark color scheme, vibrant ink, dark tango, and oblivion2) seem to be great for the versions of Geany and languages they support, but since all of the recent changes to the filedefs and color schemes, they will probably do a disservice to the users if used with newer versions. What's more, since I've ported them over to the geany-themes/named styles/color schemes stuff, they no longer even need to be maintained separately. With porting to geany-themes, they all got updated to work with recent Geany versions and support for every language starting with Geany 0.20.
So what I propose is to move these links (and also the online color scheme generator) to a sub-page or sub-section for "legacy" color schemes, with a description about when to use which colour schemes with which versions. This way people who use older Geany versions can still access them but they won't be the "default" schemes users will find. I'd also like to put descriptions, screenshots and links to the geany-themes color schemes on the Extras page. If time allows I plan to also extend the wiki page[4] to include information about the older colour schemes and the transition/version stuff.
To Jason, Bernhard and Duncan (and anyone else), if you would like to contribute to the geany-themes project, send me an email for commit access or send pull requests through Github. It would even be great if you could check out your respective themes to make sure I didn't brutalize too much while porting them.
Any thoughts, objections, comments, or otherwise?
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] Also no contact info for Oblivion2 and Tango Dark maintainer but the links still work on the Extras page [2] http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2011-April/006820.html [3] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes [4] http://wiki.geany.org/themes/start _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
So what I propose is to move these links (and also the online color scheme generator) to a sub-page or sub-section for "legacy" color schemes, with a description about when to use which colour schemes with which versions. This way people who use older Geany versions can still access them but they won't be the "default" schemes users will find. I'd also like to put descriptions, screenshots and links to the geany-themes color schemes on the Extras page. If time allows I plan to also extend the wiki page[4] to include information about the older colour schemes and the transition/version stuff.
Hello,
When I started evaluating Geany, the 'Themes' section on the Extras page really turned me off. Theme support appeared to be limited, some of the links were broken, and some of the themes didn't work. It took me a long time to find your geany-themes project on github, since I only found it after searching Github for geany related projects. But when I found it, it really influenced my decision about switching to Geany.
So I would like to help to re-organize and update the Extras page. If nothing else, it needs some clearer section headings. I'm a web developer by trade, so please let me know if there's any way I can help. I would like to offer to create the screenshots for each of the themes in geany-themes, create a gallery page for these (perhaps with a nice jQuery lightbox), and add a link to this gallery from the sidebar. I really think the collection of themes is big enough to deserve it's own page.
Does that sound reasonable?
Thanks, Nathan B
On 12/07/2011 09:17 PM, Nathan Broadbent wrote:
So what I propose is to move these links (and also the online color scheme generator) to a sub-page or sub-section for "legacy" color schemes, with a description about when to use which colour schemes with which versions. This way people who use older Geany versions can still access them but they won't be the "default" schemes users will find. I'd also like to put descriptions, screenshots and links to the geany-themes color schemes on the Extras page. If time allows I plan to also extend the wiki page[4] to include information about the older colour schemes and the transition/version stuff.
Hello,
When I started evaluating Geany, the 'Themes' section on the Extras page really turned me off. Theme support appeared to be limited, some of the links were broken, and some of the themes didn't work. It took me a long time to find your geany-themes project on github, since I only found it after searching Github for geany related projects. But when I found it, it really influenced my decision about switching to Geany.
So I would like to help to re-organize and update the Extras page. If nothing else, it needs some clearer section headings. I'm a web developer by trade, so please let me know if there's any way I can help. I would like to offer to create the screenshots for each of the themes in geany-themes, create a gallery page for these (perhaps with a nice jQuery lightbox), and add a link to this gallery from the sidebar. I really think the collection of themes is big enough to deserve it's own page.
Does that sound reasonable?
The website is using PmWiki? so it should be just a matter of modifying the Extras page markup. I already have most (all?) of the screenshots here[1] it's just a matter of making them more accessible.
While I do have opinions about more intense website updates, I'll reserve them for other discussions :)
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes/tree/0.20/screenshots
Le 08/12/2011 03:08, Matthew Brush a écrit :
Hi Guys,
I'm thinking about updating the Extras page (geany.org/Download/Extras) and I was wondering what to do with the current listing of colour schemes.
One of the colour scheme links (dark color scheme) doesn't work, it just points to a domain placeholder page. I'll remove this for sure though I can't notify Amir Saffari since there's no contact info[1]. This has been asked about in the user mailing list[2] though I didn't see it at the time.
The other other themes (dark color scheme, vibrant ink, dark tango, and oblivion2) seem to be great for the versions of Geany and languages they support, but since all of the recent changes to the filedefs and color schemes, they will probably do a disservice to the users if used with newer versions. What's more, since I've ported them over to the geany-themes/named styles/color schemes stuff, they no longer even need to be maintained separately. With porting to geany-themes, they all got updated to work with recent Geany versions and support for every language starting with Geany 0.20.
So what I propose is to move these links (and also the online color scheme generator) to a sub-page or sub-section for "legacy" color schemes, with a description about when to use which colour schemes with which versions. This way people who use older Geany versions can still access them but they won't be the "default" schemes users will find. I'd also like to put descriptions, screenshots and links to the geany-themes color schemes on the Extras page. If time allows I plan to also extend the wiki page[4] to include information about the older colour schemes and the transition/version stuff.
To Jason, Bernhard and Duncan (and anyone else), if you would like to contribute to the geany-themes project, send me an email for commit access or send pull requests through Github. It would even be great if you could check out your respective themes to make sure I didn't brutalize too much while porting them.
Any thoughts, objections, comments, or otherwise?
Nope, plan sounds good to me.
Cheers, Colomban
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] Also no contact info for Oblivion2 and Tango Dark maintainer but the links still work on the Extras page [2] http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2011-April/006820.html [3] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes [4] http://wiki.geany.org/themes/start _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel