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Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions. https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction

You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2

Or you can use any other local model you already have.

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You could solve this fairly easily by giving an LLM the json definition of your sublime text theme and just transforming it onto a zed spec theme? No need for screenshots.

Wasn't enough (at least with Gemini 3). I had do a few round trips with screenshots until it got all the details.

Interesting - now that I think about it, feeding Claude my particular Xcode theme from VS code to replicate in Zed, the color tones were quite far off how it looked in cursor. I don't know enough about color rendering to know why that is, but I feel you!

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Tried it for a first time and it took five minutes for a major bug to appear - UI fully freezing. I thought it was only scrolling that froze at first, but tried it again (easy to reproduce), and it's the whole UI. Switching apps makes it work again. Haven't seen this behavior in any other app. When trying to report it, I was presented with a form longer than my tax returns. Bug reporting seems like a good place for a…

That's interesting. I've been using Zed for over a year. I've had one or two crashes over that year, which is very stable for using it all day every day.

It doesn't crash. Just the UI is completely unresponsive until I switch to another app and back. It's weird.

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It's not just you and it's not just Zed. Dark themes tend to be low contrast gray on gray. I usually look for a dark theme that looks good and then make a custom version with darker the background colors and brighter the foreground colors. Maybe it's time for to start publishing high contrast dark themes instead of just fixing it for myself.

That's what I did: https://github.com/tuzemec/zedokai-darkest-machine

I like it! Thanks

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If you use Omarchy, the 3.8 update includes dynamic theming for Zed. It's very cool: https://github.com/APS6/omazed

That is cool. It's a shame DDH is who he is, which stops me using it.

It's not only because he is racist, there is little reason to use Omarchy from a technical standpoint https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

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Cool to see all the progress with Zed, but it feels a bit too tied to user accounts. Prominent 'Sign In' buttons and ads like 'Try our new agentic...' They do have to make money and that's fine - but too often incentives start out this way and begin to corrupt the application... Whats next, ads inside file searches? (ubuntu blundered this way and soured the community) - "LQQKING for something? try new ai search by bl…

Sign In button can be hidden: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/11054#disc...

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You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2

Or you can use any other local model you already have.

Yes, Zed was first harness where you could seriously use local models. The issue is more about not having to check so many options to make sure it's all local. You can set up local model for chat but your auto completions will still be sending your code remotely.
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