[Geany-devel] Porting themes (Was: Re: Request: multithreaded tag generation?)

[Matthew Brush]

On 01/03/2012 06:45 AM, Harold Aling wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 15:31, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
>> On 01/03/2012 06:18 AM, Harold Aling wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 15:16, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/03/2012 05:50 AM, Harold Aling wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 13:44, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I already ported all of the existing old-style color schemes to work
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> the new filedefs, see the geany-themes[1] project on Github to get
>>>>>> them.
>>>>>> Some might need a little tweaking, but should for the most part be
>>>>>> quite
>>>>>> similar to the original ones.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice!
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, the 'dark' scheme needs some serious tweaking to make
>>>>> it look like I'm used to (it's very brownish dull right now), but I
>>>>> guess some well-placed copy/paste actions will solve that for me! ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Armed with a screenshot of the old scheme, dark.conf, an old
>>>>> filetypes.* file and the documentation[1] I'll try to recreate the old
>>>>> dark theme.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It'd be great if you could send me your changes after so I could update
>>>> the
>>>> one in geany-themes!
>>>
>>>
>>> I will. Unfortunately, it's quite a trial and error process as the
>>> documentation isn't very helpful in where a definition is used. For
>>> example: 'string_1', 'keyword_3', and lots of others aren't mentioned
>>> anywhere.
>>>
>>> It also would have been nice if there's a old>    new name list.
>>>
>>
>> See the [styling] section in each filedef to see where they map to the old
>> language-specific styles. For example, here's an extract of the PHP style
>> mappings from filetypes.xml::
>>
>>   php_default=default
>>   php_simplestring=string_1
>>   php_hstring=string_1
>>   php_number=number_1
>>   php_word=keyword_1
>>   php_variable=preprocessor
>>   php_comment=comment
>>   php_commentline=comment
>>   php_operator=operator
>>   php_hstring_variable=string_2
>>   php_complex_variable=keyword_2
>
> My filetypes.xml in /usr/local/share/geany doesn't list any mappings
> but I guess the mappings are defined in the filetypes.html file
> because of this tag: [styling=HTML]
>
> In filetypes.html there's a quite different definition than yours,
> probably after the change on November 9th[1]
>

Ah right, the ones in my home dir aren't up-to-date.  Actually, maybe I 
didn't update geany-themes after that commit, so thanks for reminding me 
if I didn't.

I'll add your changes to geany-themes shortly, thanks!

Cheers,
Matthew Brush