I am a Linux Mint user, and for some time, my primary text editor has been Xed, which is the default in Mint. I found a color scheme I like pretty well (Cobalt), but Xed is missing a key feature that I have been hoping would be implemented for some time: Xed does not have an option or feature to save open tabs on exit, and restore them when re-opening Xed. There is a feature request for this function that has been open since May of 2018, with no action. So I gave up and started looking elsewhere, and have pretty well settled on Geany.
I found the themes on github, downloaded and installed them. I brought up a variety of documents and scripts and tried the various (Dark) themes. Unfortunately, my eyes are old, and none of the dark themes seemed to provide enough contrast to be readily readable for me. I have started to modify the "Ralesk's MC" theme, as it seemed a reasonable starting point.
I have looked (unsuccessfully to this point) for documentation on the format of the Theme .conf files. Has such documentation been written? Could someone post a link to any suitable information on this topic, if it exists?
TIA, Alan Becker
On Monday, October 04, 2021 01:08:29 PM Alan Becker wrote:
Unfortunately, my eyes are old, and none of the dark themes seemed to provide enough contrast to be readily readable for me.
(Commenting from the peanut gallery:) I assume you've tried some of the non- dark themes also? I'm old, with old eyes, and learned to read and have always read black (or dark) text on white (or light) backgroundand just cannot deal with "dark themes".
Further, at least at one time there was an error propagated nearly everywhere (at least everywhere that I was aware of) in that the anti-aliasing software used to make text characters look smooth was biased to dark -- it worked fine for dark text on a light background, but for light text on a dark background it made too many pixels match the background (dark) instead of the text / foreground, thus making text even harder to see in a dark theme.
I still see this effect some places (e.g., some web pages).
The main documentation is in the manual https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#color-schemes-dialog and https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#special-file-filetypes-commo... and in the `filetypes.common` file `Menu->Tools->Configuration files->filetypes.common` file itself.
Cheers Lex
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 03:08, Alan Becker beckera@softrendsinc.com wrote:
I am a Linux Mint user, and for some time, my primary text editor has been Xed, which is the default in Mint. I found a color scheme I like pretty well (Cobalt), but Xed is missing a key feature that I have been hoping would be implemented for some time: Xed does not have an option or feature to save open tabs on exit, and restore them when re-opening Xed. There is a feature request for this function that has been open since May of 2018, with no action. So I gave up and started looking elsewhere, and have pretty well settled on Geany.
I found the themes on github, downloaded and installed them. I brought up a variety of documents and scripts and tried the various (Dark) themes. Unfortunately, my eyes are old, and none of the dark themes seemed to provide enough contrast to be readily readable for me. I have started to modify the "Ralesk's MC" theme, as it seemed a reasonable starting point.
I have looked (unsuccessfully to this point) for documentation on the format of the Theme .conf files. Has such documentation been written? Could someone post a link to any suitable information on this topic, if it exists?
TIA, Alan Becker
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Thanks for the reply. I already found the answer to my other question, but I appreciate the response.
Alan Becker
On 10/4/21 8:16 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
The main documentation is in the manual https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#color-schemes-dialog and https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#special-file-filetypes-commo... and in the `filetypes.common` file `Menu->Tools->Configuration files->filetypes.common` file itself.
Cheers Lex
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 03:08, Alan Becker beckera@softrendsinc.com wrote:
I am a Linux Mint user, and for some time, my primary text editor has been Xed, which is the default in Mint. I found a color scheme I like pretty well (Cobalt), but Xed is missing a key feature that I have been hoping would be implemented for some time: Xed does not have an option or feature to save open tabs on exit, and restore them when re-opening Xed. There is a feature request for this function that has been open since May of 2018, with no action. So I gave up and started looking elsewhere, and have pretty well settled on Geany.
I found the themes on github, downloaded and installed them. I brought up a variety of documents and scripts and tried the various (Dark) themes. Unfortunately, my eyes are old, and none of the dark themes seemed to provide enough contrast to be readily readable for me. I have started to modify the "Ralesk's MC" theme, as it seemed a reasonable starting point.
I have looked (unsuccessfully to this point) for documentation on the format of the Theme .conf files. Has such documentation been written? Could someone post a link to any suitable information on this topic, if it exists?
TIA, Alan Becker
Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 9:54 PM Alan Becker beckera@softrendsinc.com wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I already found the answer to my other question, but I appreciate the response.
I, for one, was actually following to see the solution you would arrive at.
Would you please write out what you found/did?
Regards