On Feb 12, 2007, at 12:33 PM, William D. Neumann wrote:
While this is a very good suggestion, it is certainly hindered by the fact that there is no comprehensive deep theme at the moment. E.g. the Brilliance themes are indeed well loaded with goodies, but they contain little in the way of coloring for OCaml constructs: nothing for modules, method calls, variant types, floating point numbers and operators, and so on -- these aren't even edge cases, they're core parts of the language, and I'm not sure their addition could be considered "tweaking". Now, I do 90% of my coding in OCaml, so this is what I've noticed, but I'd guess that there are other less-common languages in the bundles that are similarly unsupported by these deep themes.
::Glances over at Brilliance Black::
It has like over 150 rules, you want to add more and make it a template for new themes? Are you trying to scare off the competition? ;) If we seriously recommend to people that to make a theme they need to edit a list that long you'd never get any new themes.
Don't misunderstand me I'm not trying to belittle the work Subtle has done, I think the time taken to make the theme work in so many languages is commendable, but to say you need to have that huge a theme before it can work well… that's kinda scary no?