This sign up thing is such a plague. I don't want to trade my digital identity for a theme, it's a bad deal. The only reason I would sign up is if you'd allow theme hosting and signing up would allow me to host my themes and gain notoriety.
Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
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#42it looks awesome, but I just always failed to sign in with Github :(
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#43Is there a way to upload a partial theme? I already noodle on one and sticking in this to validate or handle sections I didn't think I needed to care about would be great.
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#44How is this different from or better than themer? Themer can be ran locally or you can use the website and no login is required.
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#45Hello, this is great to see. However, the site is not recognizing login on Brave browser even with lowered filters. I logged in via Github and can see your app is authorized. The site still thinks I am logged out.
Also, I block facebook pixels, reddit tracking and google tag manager that you have on the site. Could that be the reason. I don't want FAANG scum to get my data each time I lift my toilet lid :)
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#46Hi HN, I built the VS Code Theme Studio after realizing how hard and annoying it is to create a theme the standard way. You have to tweak tons of hex color codes in a huge JSON file... yuck. Most of the time you don't even know which settings to edit, or how they actually affect the UI. I wanted to build a much more intuitive and user-friendly way of designing VS Code themes, so that anyone could design a beautiful,…
Mike,
This seems like a fun project. I wanted to second my favorite Vue + Firebase combo. The purists may balk but it is super approachable for a luddite like myself.
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#47Project looks cool. "Sign in with Github" doesn't seem to be working though.
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#48This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback: 1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested. 2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use 3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always se…
Also, do at least some light curation (votes/ranking/popularity). Hitting a page full of Untitled themes that all look similar isn't good for browsing.
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#49Both the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links 404. Why does this require an account?
Oooof just pushed a fix for that. It's a lot easier to make a theme in multiple 'sittings' instead of all at once. Your themes get stored under your account so you can come back to them later. Also used for posting the themes in the 'hub'. Localstorage seemed too flakey for theme data storage... it would be a really bad experience to lose an hours worth of theme data.
You can use anonymous firebase login option to log in users in the background and when they are finished, prompt them to use oauth login.
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#50It would be so cool if you could change the colors directly in VS Code by just pointing to the pixel that you want to change. A color picker would pop up and the change would be applied immediately. (It would not only change the selected pixel but the entire color key)
Maybe with some machine learning the easy-to-compute function from colors -> VS Code UI Screenshots could be inversed, so that you know which color keys influence a certain pixel.
Sadly the color space is finite, otherwise the color key could be easily encoded in the color without changing the color much. Looking forward to high DPI CSS colors ;)