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Re: Tomorrow Theme

#131

Post by ChrisKempson » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

singingwolfboy wrote: post #2

Nice... but how is this "better" than Solarized? I already have Solarized installed and set up the way I want. Why should I switch away?

It's neither better nor worse.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#132

Post by ChrisKempson » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 1:42 PM UTC

dumbluck wrote: post #103

I really wanted to like this, but I think that colors preferences are both subjective and born of habit/experience which leads to wiring our brains to expect certain colors for certain things, because I don't like pastels, and I don't like red as a non-alert color. It's a good idea, with a lot of thought put into it. The author should keep trying. Maybe there is more than one right option. Personally, I think the bes…

Will certainly keep trying. I would say there is no right option and at the same time all options are right.

There does seem something common about themes that appeal to many people but ultimately each has their own correct version of how things should be. Hence my next project https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 Interesting idea by the way!

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#133

Post by ChrisKempson » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 1:47 PM UTC

dudus wrote: post #59

Finally someone built a theme better than Vim's desert. Bravo.

That's quite a compliment, thanks :)

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#134

Post by nshankar » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 2:03 PM UTC

Thanks for the theme. Changed Zenburn with Tomorrow-Night-Bright and feels very good. Zenburn was not able to show visual selections in a proper color. Also, non printable characters were showing very bright. Problems solved with Tomorrow theme.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#135

Post by mnicole » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

So I'm not sure if I'm slow or what, but I'm not getting any of the Tomorrow or Base16 Textmate themes to import into Aptana. Imported a few other .tmThemes and they work fine. Any ideas?

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#136

Post by stevejb » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 5:42 PM UTC

Is there anyone working on Emacs 24 deftheme support? If not, I can try to work on it.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#137

Post by ag3mo » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 5:56 PM UTC

prophetjohn wrote: post #105

JavaScript in ST2 looks gorgeous in Tomorrow Night 80s. Java, not so much. Keywords, class names and annotations all being the same color makes for a lot of lavender. http://i.imgur.com/8wRBN.png

Yeah java's not so great in ST2 with Tomorrow Night but it's much better in eclipse. http://i.imgur.com/1HNco.png

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#138

Post by vito » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

lysol wrote: post #95

vito wrote: post #58

As a CLI designer (silly as that sounds) it's nice to see a theme that doesn't abuse the 'bright' palette. Hated Solarized for that alone.

I'm honestly intrigued -- what type of software do you work on?

I work on the CLI for a PaaS. So lots of interaction, detailed output for your apps and their status, etc. Probably a less interesting answer than you hoped.

I started adding colors to highlight important parts of the output (e.g. app names, status, ...), but received a bunch of complaints from people who couldn't read parts of the output. Turned out they were just using bad/broken themes, like Solarized, which abuses the bright palette by replacing them with various unreadable shades of blue.

It's otherwise a pretty nice color scheme. Just annoying that I can't trust the "bright" palette to ever be readable because of themes like it.

(Also, the themes that come with Terminal.app are pretty abysmal. The stock 'blue' isn't even readable in some common configurations.)

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#139

Post by StavrosK » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 8:10 PM UTC

xiaomai wrote: post #39

For people using vundle: Bundle 'chriskempson/tomorrow-theme', {'rtp': 'vim/'}

Thank you for that, I was looking for the line too.