Somehow all themes follow a kinda similar approach.
I always wondered how a different approach would change the way we write code.
Like, deemphasizin clutter code like braces, and emphasizing information like comments.
Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
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Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nord also has ports for some applications (Emacs, Guake and Tmux are those I care about). Unfortunately, not for all daily apps yet. https://www.nordtheme.com/ports
Maybe its out of fashion by now but solarized light/dark theme also has many ports. https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/
I don’t know about fashion, but I used a slightly improved Solarized Dark everywhere.
Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#133I have a hard time seeing why this is such a popular theme.. maybe it's just because it is available for so many different editors. On the other hand, would be cool to have an application / database that could convert any theme to another editor. Although that would take a lot of work to figure out the compatibilities, if somebody would do that well enough so that other people can configure input output configs for t…
> On the other hand, would be cool to have an application / database that could convert any theme to another editor.
I added support for the GtkSourceView XML format to my personal editor (which uses Rouge for syntax highlighting, so my loader can work for anything that uses Rouge), and so I could test Dracula just by searching for "gedit" which uses GtkSourceView, and I wish more apps would coalesce around common theming formats... The proliferation of different configuration methods for theming is quite pointless.
At least, if people wish to use a custom format it'd certainly be good if they provided converters for a couple of the popular formats.
Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#134The default dark theme of MS VS Code is sublime (pun intended) and is one of the greater design artifacts of MSFT.
There are almost zero 3rd party themes, paid or not, that are thoughtfully designed. It takes an odd combination of understanding the language a bit, understanding the utility of colour and contrast, and then also aesthetics - and then a lot of energy devoted to tweaking it just perfectly.
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#135I like the dracula theme but I unfortunately have to advice people to not purchase the early access on the dracula ui. I bought early access pretty much when it was announced because I thought it looked nice and would fit to a product I was building at the moment.
The thing is that the development of the ui seems to have died pretty much and there hasn't been any updates for months. It requires you to use npm to use the ui and if you don't use React (which I don't) you may only use it by using the classes directly.
I had higher hopes for the ui and that the development would have been more active since they charge you a pretty large fee for it.
Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#136Dracula is a fine theme, however, I feel like it's more convenient than it is pretty. I admire Dracula, Nord, and Gruvbox and how committed they are to their own aesthetics - my personal favorite, similar to Gruvbox, is Alduin[0] but sadly it's for Vim only. I only wish popular themes didn't feel like they had to use every primary color for the text. I wish we took the popular themes and made them even more opinionat…
Yes! I'm not sure of your preferred editor but for Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA there is the Alabaster theme. You can read up more on its "manifesto" here. Variants to cover the rest besides the light theme on VS Code are at the bottom of the page. https://github.com/tonsky/vscode-theme-alabaster
+1 for alabaster.
The older I get, thr harder dark themes are for my eyes to parse.
This is a wonderful light theme with limited distractions.
Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#137Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...
Nord also has ports for some applications (Emacs, Guake and Tmux are those I care about). Unfortunately, not for all daily apps yet. https://www.nordtheme.com/ports
I clicked on one of the applications and that changed the URL but does not leave the previous URL in the back history. Letting JS control the history state was a mistake.
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#138I used solarized for a long time, but then I got PaperColor [0] recommended by a colleague recently, and after trying it for a bit I liked it so much that I switched to that exclusively. It was originally made for vim, but there are ports to other tools[1]. [0]: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme [1]: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme#-related-proje...
Fun fact: The dark variant of Solarized was chosen as it reminded the designer of drowning.
Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#139There's no way Dracula is not copyrighted. What next, StarWars theme?
1897... copyright holders have really done a number on you.
Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
#140I have a hard time seeing why this is such a popular theme.. maybe it's just because it is available for so many different editors. On the other hand, would be cool to have an application / database that could convert any theme to another editor. Although that would take a lot of work to figure out the compatibilities, if somebody would do that well enough so that other people can configure input output configs for t…
If someone could build a tool that somehow allowed you to set generic tokens like "heading text color", "body text color"... etc, while potentially including contrast warnings in case you mess up
And then automatically generate the theme files for all these apps - now that would be simply amazing!
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At least for me, since I maintain my own personal VSCode/IntelliJ theme