On 25 Jan 2015, at 00:51, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:

Hi!

It would be great to have a good dark theme. There is a bit of theory behind about how to choose a nice color schema. It would be _great_ that the crew behind this effort have a look at it.

we do have a good dark theme�� probably not the one you like the most, but is good (based in darcula for eclipse) :)

Here is a set of colors that works well for the dark theme. The code highlighter may greatly benefit from it.
http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

You already have solarised highlight in pharo. But it will not work out-of-the-box on dark because of the default font (is dark gray)��. I suppose it can be adapted easily for dark theme too.

Esteban

It even works well for the white theme.

Cheers,
Alexandre

NB: Thanks to Damien Pollet for the Solarized link!

On Jan 23, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

The Dark Theme is a standard theme upcoming in Pharo4, but as you might noticed, is still far from perfect.
I would like to take some actions on it but I do not have a lot of time this days, so I thought on asking for help :)

What I think is needed?

1) There are some bugs (for example in the search window, cmd+f in text panes)
2) Icon-set is not prepared for dark backgrounds. Now, this is a problem in eclipse itself who didn��t had a dark-theme either until recently. Now, I know they added a dark-theme and a corresponding set of icons (a set that can be displayed correctly both in white and black backgrounds), but I cannot find the icons. So if someone knows where they are, I��ll gladly replace them.
I know in an ideal world we will have our own set of icons, but that requires a lot of effort and design talent�� so in the mean time, I think eclipse icons are doing a good job :)

cheers,
Esteban

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