Request for editor theme support (+6)

[pq]

(From user submitted feedback):

The ability to theme the editor is essential (Looking at black and purple on white is an eye strain).

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by timwy...@gmail.com

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Agreed. The theme shows up as black text on black background for me. The only way to use it is if I change my system theme. There needs to be syntax highlighting options or at least an option between using system or default(white background) theme.

[stevemessick]

Issue #296 has been merged into this issue.

[danrubel]

Changed the title to: "Request for editor theme support (+1)".

[danrubel]

[user feedback]
 I have color themes in Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/) and, maybe it's just because I'm launching Dart Editor from Eclipse, but it's picking up some of that style. I have black text on a dark gray background.

I imagine someone's working on adding color selection to Preferences, but I think I'll add it too just for the experience. Drag and drop textmate themes would please the Mac folks!

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Changed the title to: "Request for editor theme support (+2)".

[clayberg]

[user feedback]
Now wouldn't it be dreamy to be able to customize the editor a bit more : classic tabs in Eclipse, no window animations

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Changed the title to: "Request for editor theme support (+3)".

[danrubel]

[user feedback]
i hope it could change the theme of editor...
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Editor Version: 4777

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Changed the title to: "Request for editor theme support (+4)".

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by fvitale...@gmail.com

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In the meantime I changed my background color from white to light grey/blue simply adding to the file: <DART-INSTALL-DIR>\workspace.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime.settings\org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs

the lines:
AbstractTextEditor.Color.Background.SystemDefault=false
AbstractTextEditor.Color.Background=208,208,223

[clayberg]

[user feedback]

Hi, the editor is not eye-friendly huh? I have no option found to change the background color, this "white" blend and stress my eyes, also there was
no way to customize syntax coloring.. it rumored some of us are colorblind..!

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Changed the title to: "Request for editor theme support (+5)".

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by rhys.vd...@gmail.com

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I'm having the same problem with DartEditor taking my Eclipse theme (it takes the background color). The changes to ..editors.prefs suggested above have not corrected this.

Does anyone have a fix to either change the background or text to a lighter color? Black on black is hard to read.

[danrubel]

Added this to the Later milestone.

[stevemessick]

Issue #1052 has been merged into this issue.

[stevemessick]

It would be neat if there was a 'dark' editor theme :)
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Editor: 9474
OS: Mac OS X - x86_64 (10.7.4)
JVM: 1.6.0_33

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

[stevemessick]

I like this ditor, but I do all my coding on a dark background which is easier on the eyes, some colour options in the editor would be really nice.
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Editor: 11397
OS: Windows 8 - amd64 (6.2)
JVM: 1.7.0_06

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

[stevemessick]

Add some functionality to install eclipse color theme plugin
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Editor: 12440 (2012-09-17)
OS: Mac OS X - x86_64 (10.7.4)
JVM: 1.6.0_35

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

[clayberg]

It would be helpfull if Types such as num, String, Boolean etc are coloured
within the editor to aim in clarity, Other editors do this.
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Editor: 0.2.3_r14669 (2012-11-07)
OS: Windows 7 - x86 (6.1)
JVM: 1.7.0_07

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

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Removed this from the Later milestone.
Added this to the M3 milestone.
Changed the title to: "Request for editor theme support (+6)".