I like this but please add a light mode. I suffer from astigmatism and looking at a black screen gives me headaches.
I specifically create light mode themes that work with my eye condition.
Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
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Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#52This 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…
I think the worst part for me was that when I went to sign in to GitHub the only thing it asked me for was my private email address. Dude, what?
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#53Wait, does this mean you could create a VSCode extension to create themes for VSCode within VSCode?
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#54Very nice tool. I don't have the patience to fully customise a theme, but i would really like to browse through the existing themes.
The only problem here is that there are a lot of themes (most of them) that were started just for checking the tool out, so they're not really finished or different from the default. Maybe you could add some kind of publish button - or as a quick fix, don't show the themes with "Untitled" in the title.
Otherwise great project. I really think this would be great for medium sized IT shops/companies for branding their tooling. Great job.
PS: found this gem https://themes.vscode.one/theme/rpetersen29/dOaUUtdW
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#55This 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.
For sure, I would like to get a HN-type 'hot' algorithm with upvotes powering the list in the near future.
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#56How is this different from or better than themer? Themer can be ran locally or you can use the website and no login is required.
I like Themer. I think Themer is awesome for creating less-detailed but still great 'umbrella' themes that you can bring with you to lots of different programs. This is for creating more detailed / robust VS Code-specific themes.
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#57Really nice. I've enjoyed playing around with the editor. As mentioned by others, color variables would be nice to group some values together. And i would love to import my own themes to adjust some colors or customize it.
Agreed, going to explore this, thanks!
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'd be nice to let people create themes anonymously and only save them to localStorage, then require an account if they want to do more from there.
I considered this a little, but I want to optimize for a more robust set of features in the future that would require an account... E.g. eventually handling the submission to the marketplace for the user, etc. + I was worried about users potentially losing lots of work if LocalStorage gets wiped for some reason.
maybe make the changes they make in-memory-only and prompt them to sign up to persist. Like what piskelapp.com do - you can edit an image and save it locally, but if you want to save it to your gallery you need to create an account.
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#59Very nice tool. I don't have the patience to fully customise a theme, but i would really like to browse through the existing themes. The only problem here is that there are a lot of themes (most of them) that were started just for checking the tool out, so they're not really finished or different from the default. Maybe you could add some kind of publish button - or as a quick fix, don't show the themes with "Untitle…
Yeah, this needs some curation / clean-up features for sure.
The Gem made me laugh. In game design there's some concept of '4 different player archetypes' and I forget the details but I remember one of them is like... that player that just likes to break stuff. Respect to whoever made that :)
Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
#60As someone who's created their own theme for VSCode this could've saved a ton of time.
However after trying to just change a couple colors I'm already extremely frustrated since I can't actually type a hex code in the color picker without it hijacking what I'm typing and adding characters, even when I'm trying to delete. The only thing that works is if I paste in a hex code. I'm not sure if this is an attempt at autocompleting the hex codes but whatever it is, it's maddening.