[Geany-devel] Geany Color Schemes and Extras Page

[Sean Wolfe]

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 at 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
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