[Geany-devel] Textmate color schemes convertion

[Maciej Ciemborowicz]

On 06.05.2011 00:39, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 05/05/11 07:40, Maciej Ciemborowicz (publiczny adres) wrote:
>> Hi. I'm going to write Textmate color schemes to Geany color schemes
>> converter. But I have doubts about how to do that properly.
>> Documentation says, that I should place them in colorschemes/*.conf
>> files. But as I see, filetype definitions have hardcoded colors. I don't
>> want to generate schemes for all filetypes becouse it is... redundant. I
>> want to write one color scheme and figure on filetypes.* which SHOULD
>> depend on it (at least official versions). The second problem is, that I
>> can place in colorschemes/*.conf only [named_styles] section, not
>> [styling] section, which is in filetypes.common.
>
> I think you'll find it more pleasant to work with the setup used in
> geany-themes[1].  It's fixes all the problems you're having, would
> make writing a converter much easier (I started one for Gedit->Geany
> themes), and it will likely be incorporated into Geany[2] proper in
> the near future.  If you do write a Textmate->Geany color scheme
> converter using the named styles geany-themes is using, I would
> *really* like to add it to the project, and also use it to create a
> bunch more themes.  There's a little explanation in the README in the
> repository, but you should be able to figure it out by poking around
> in the directories there.  Feel free to contact me if you have any
> questions.
>
> Still, I will try and answer your questions below to help it make sense.
>
> [1] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes
> [2] https://github.com/codebrainz/geany/tree/colorscheme_fixup
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush

Thanks a lot for your explanation. Geany-themes looks very good, I 
forked your project few minutes ago. For conversion I will use 
Coloration[1] which already has a TextMate themes reader. The only thing 
I have to do is a Geany color schemes writer.

[1] https://github.com/ciembor/coloration

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Maciej Ciemborowicz