Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

[Neil C Smith]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 at 14:07 David Cogen  wrote:

> "Lack of contrast"? Let's start with the editor window: light gray text on
> dark
> gray background?
>

 Also, don't forget that editor themes and the look-and-feel (Dark Metal)
are related but not the same thing.  In terms of editor themes
(fonts/colors), if you haven't come across this site before, it might be
worth a look - https://netbeansthemes.com/

Best wishes,

Neil


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Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

[David Cogen]

On 01/18/2018 03:58 PM, Thomas Wolf wrote:

Not sure what lack of contrast you’re talking about with Darcula.  To my eyes 
everything that is of interest or always in my face has good contrast - to the 
extent possible and still distinguish between different types of text 
(keywords, comments, etc.). Tab labels, output text, and tree node labels  are 
pretty much white (or close to it) on very dark shades of grey.   Everything in 
the editor is customizable too (I rarely read comments and find them 
distracting, so I gave them less contrast).

In general I avoid white backgrounds like the plague.  I attribute my longevity 
as a developer with still decent eyesight (been coding since 1980) to the 
avoidance of it :-)

tom



"Lack of contrast"? Let's start with the editor window: light gray text on dark 
gray background? That's low contrast, and very hard to read. My feeling is, at 
least one of foreground color or background color should almost always be full 
white or full black.


Regarding your purposefully making comments less contrasty because you find them 
"distracting",  Shame on you!


Maybe I can start with darcula and tweak it to something I can use. I'll try.



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