![]() I dunno, maybe people do not use the recent files panel as much as I do. All dark themes seem to be setup properly for it. Seems like this panel was overlooked when setting up all light themes. however picking any light theme for widgets makes this panel have really low contrast between text and background. Yes there are a number of themes pre-set, this is great. And going through blindly changing everything to find what changes the left side panel by trial and error is not something I wanted to spend my time on. Yeah, its not actually so much the fact everything is available to be changed, but the fact you get lost amongst the options not knowing which option is for what. ![]() Lolz thanks for the quick response and being so understandable. Well this shouldnt be the case, I should be able to quickly and easily find this and modify myself. Sorry its a rant, but this has been bugging me for so long, I know someone will come along and go “yeah open the customizer, and clik here and there and you will be able to set it”. Why are the basics not setup to enable users to pick from at least dark and light colour scheme, which will have a default contrast set properly for text/background? I feel a young dev has taken up this part of the komodo development and made a big mess out of it. The f*****g close button! I just want the basics - changing the colours of the editor and the widgets around it, not the level of granularity which makes you get lost amongst all the options as soon as you open the “colour scheme editor”. I’ve managed to find places where you can set colours for the close button. Im able to set this somewhere in config I hear you say? I’ve been using komodo for the last 4 years or so, in all that time I still havent found an option which will let me simply change the text colour in the sidebar widget so its a bit darker. I am continually having to squint to be able to read the filenames in the sidebar, because the contrast between background and foreground is so low. I am using a light colour scheme for my widgets and a dark one for the editor. Both should have good contrast between the background and text. Why are devs asking users to make changes to CSS files in order to get the basic colour scheme setup for their use? Madness!Īt the minimum, the editor should come with 2 basic colour schemes - light and dark. Just to chime in here, yes I’ve been having the same feelings about the colour schemes, I mean who set these up? A colourblind person? Or not, I don’t care, I’m not trying to impose my preferences on everybody else - that seems to be your job! I gather black on black colour schemes are considered jolly clever by the twittering classes I like to think that if they go on to write serious code they’ll learn the error of their ways. Why you ship with ONLY black or (censored) options is beyond me and then expect your users to scurry around trying to find something usable. Other than that, I neither notice nor care). The light versions of faint pastel on slightly fainter pastel I find completely illegible, the dark themes give me a headache.Īll I want is to be able to choose the background colour - the one thing you explicitly exclude! I use, and have used, too many IDEs to care about syntax colouring (making comments distinct is nice being able to see what text is selected is pretty vital and being able to read the selected text - which your light themes make impossible. So when the 9* version of KE says “you can have any colour you like as long as it’s black” I was not impressed. Reading white on black or lime green on fuchsia is seriously hard work, the eye is too distracted. There’s a reason why books, newspapers and serious magazines are black ink on white paper. ![]() But an IDE is a tool not a fashion product it has to be usable and that means being able to sit in front of it hour after hour, day after day without the tool itself being the problem.įor me, that means a white (or preferably very light grey) background colour. I know just what a powerful tool a good IDE is. ![]() I’ve used many generations of numerous IDEs on generations of Windows and generations of Unix and Linux. I’ve calmed down now!įor background, I’ve coded on paper tape, punched cards, paper-and-keyboard teletypes and black-on-green “glass teletypes” connected to mainframes you’ve never heard of. Many thanks to you all for your replies my apologies for not responding sooner.
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