Editor Background Color
Thursday, 18 December 2014 · 6 messages · last reply 25 Dec 2014
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Alex R. Loayza18 Dec 2014 00:22 #
Hello,
I’m new to
BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs because bright whites hurt my eyes.
However,
I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the Editor.
Is there a
way to customize this?
Thank you
very much for any help, and especially for having built this great product and making it open source!
Best
regards,
Alex
CG
Christian Grün18 Dec 2014 02:16 #
Hi Alex,
I know that one of our team members is using BaseX with a dark desktop theme (on Mac OSX), so he might give you some hints.
Could you possibly give us some more information on your environment? What OS do you use?
Thanks,
Christian
Quoted text · Alex R. Loayza · 20 lines
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex R. Loayza <logal3 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the > background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs > because bright whites hurt my eyes. > > However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / > Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the > Editor. > > Is there a way to customize this? > > Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great > product and making it open source! > > Best regards, > > Alex >
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Michael Seiferle18 Dec 2014 10:09 #
Hi Alex,
currently there is no way (at least no way that I am aware of :-)) to customize the background color of the various editor panels from *inside* BaseX, maybe your OS or window manager might do that.
I think it might need quite some time to provide a dark-theme, as one would need to update the syntax highlighting code as well.
However, I might be interested in this feature as well :-)
Best
Michael
Quoted text · Christian Grün · 33 lines
On 18 Dec 2014, at 2:16, Christian Grün wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I know that one of our team members is using BaseX with a dark desktop > theme (on Mac OSX), so he might give you some hints. > > Could you possibly give us some more information on your environment? > What OS do you use? > > Thanks, > Christian > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex R. Loayza <logal3 at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the >> background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs >> because bright whites hurt my eyes. >> >> However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / >> Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the >> Editor. >> >> Is there a way to customize this? >> >> Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great >> product and making it open source! >> >> Best regards, >> >> Alex >>
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Christian Grün18 Dec 2014 12:50 #
Hi Alex, hi Michael,
The color schemes haven't been changed for a long time, so the new major release could be a good moment for that…
Past has shown that the major challenge is to ensure that the color handling does not lead to strange effects on specific window managers (mostly Linux-based).
I would be glad to get some more input: Apart from the Editor Panel, are there some other panels in the GUI that need to be recolored (und that are not automatically recolored when changing the OS settings)? You can also provide me with screenshots.
Thanks
Christian
CG
Hi Alex,
Quoted text · Alex R. Loayza · 3 lines
> I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the > background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs > because bright whites hurt my eyes.
Please check out the latest snapshot. It should now automatically use dark colors if you use a dark theme in your window manager.
Hope this helps,
Christian
[1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest
Quoted text · Alex R. Loayza · 14 lines
> > However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / > Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the > Editor. > > Is there a way to customize this? > > Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great > product and making it open source! > > Best regards, > > Alex >
CG
Hi Alex,
One more thing: We won't spend time in designing additional window themes, but I added support for JTattoo [1], which provides two dark themes. If the library is added to the Java classpath, you can choose among 13 additional Look and Feels [2]. The feature is available with the latest snapshot [3].
Have fun,
Christian
[1] http://www.jtattoo.net/
[2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Graphical_User_Interface#Look_and_Feels [3] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/
Quoted text · Alex R. Loayza · 20 lines
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex R. Loayza <logal3 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the > background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs > because bright whites hurt my eyes. > > However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / > Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the > Editor. > > Is there a way to customize this? > > Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great > product and making it open source! > > Best regards, > > Alex >
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