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 > On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:18 PM, David Cogen <co...@ll.mit.edu> wrote: > >> On 01/18/2018 02:01 PM, Thomas Wolf wrote: >> This won’t help your current issue, but if you want a good dark theme, try >> Darcula - highly recommended (and not gratuitous in its use of color :-). >> To perfect everything, use Monaco for the font the editor uses :-) >> > I tried that too. Not a fan of that one either. Why do so many themes > (everywhere, not only netbeans) minimize contrast)? > One of the colors - either the foreground or the background - should almost > always be pure white or pure black. These themes with light blue on dark > blue, white on gray, etc. are terrible! > > It is so bad that on Firefox I have to use a plugin called "Blacken" to read > many websites. It does what I need: change the foreground to pure black or > white to maximize readability. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
