[TxMt] POLL: Request a Theme!

[Gavin Kistner]

On Sep 11, 2005, at 9:57 AM, thomas Aylott wrote:
> Who uses what theme in textMate?

All Hallow's Eve

> What themes have you used from previous systems or applications?
>         visual studio? dreamweaver? bbedit? foo.app?
>         Do you like them?

BBEdit's factory colors. I liked it at the time.
SciTE's factory colors on Windows. I like it fine also.


> Do you like black backgrounds? Do you like colored backgrounds?

Yup. Dark and desaturated is easier on my eyes. Also, it makes it  
less likely for the light from my laptop to awaken my wife when I'm  
coding in bed later than I ought to be :)

> Do you hate excessive use of background colors? ...for the  
> page? ...for individual elements?

For individual elements, yes. Per-item BG color changes should be  
reserved for the current line, or something really odd (like SciTE's  
highlighting of the remainder of a line when a string literal remains  
unclosed).


> Do you like high contrast? Do you prefer lower contrast?

High contrast is a'ight in small doses.


> Do you like having a bunch of different colors or would you prefer  
> one with shades of only a few colors?

Hrm, I'm using All Hallow's Eve, so apparently garish is good with me.


> What colors do you like? Please give examples.

For my wallpaper/bedsheets - dark saturated colors, dark desaturated  
colors, or light desaturated. Slate blues and mint greens and  
burgundies.

> Do you have synisthesia? Are certain elements 'supposed' to be a  
> certain color?

Nope.


> What languages do you want to have colored?

Ruby, ERB, HTML

> Do you want different languages to have different colors?

Per-language coloring isn't a terrible idea, but I think that when  
languages share common atoms (strings, numbers, regexp, keywords,  
variable names, etc.) that those languages should share the same  
color for the atoms, to reinforce the color-to-object mapping at all  
times.