Are there plans to make TextMate’s “chrome” (file pane, tabs, etc.) theme-able? I’d like the fonts in the file pane to be smaller and the background to be darker.
Bob ------------------- Robert J. Rockefeller Richmond Hill, GA www.bobrockefeller.com
On 12 Feb 2015, at 7:33, Robert J. Rockefeller wrote:
Are there plans to make TextMate’s “chrome” (file pane, tabs, etc.) theme-able? I’d like the fonts in the file pane to be smaller and the background to be darker.
If the font in the file browser is made smaller then the icons need to be smaller as well, but they are all made to look good at 16 points, not lower, this includes the system’s file type icons.
I have considered a background color setting, but if you can set an arbitrary background color then you also need to be able to set text color, and thus selection color, and selection color in inactive state, and then possibly the label rendering should account for this, and our custom icons might need to account for dark background, plus the file browser header and its action bar, etc. — and system controls (which is used for the file browser) are not really made for having a customized color scheme.
So while I have considered it, it’s not really something I’m keen on adding…
Yes, one thing leads to another and it gets complex fast. And you have to set priorities.
Maybe it can be for later, but to my eye, the information density in the file browser isn't high enough. In complicated projects with many folder and files, that results in a long scrolling list that I seem to be constantly navigating. I’m not a spring chicken, but I use Panic San in 11pt, or Source Code Pro in 12pt, as my editing font. The big 16pt font in the file browser looks out of place.
Some of the other popular editors have ended up with custom icons that are simpler and scale down well. They may even be SVGs in some cases. But then that’s more work for someone to create a set of those icons for the many possible file types in a project.
At any rate, please keep this as a place holder until you see if such a feature is popular enough for the effort it would take to implement.
Bob ------------------- Robert J. Rockefeller Richmond Hill, GA www.bobrockefeller.com
On 12 February 2015 at 19:20, Robert J. Rockefeller bob@bobrockefeller.com wrote:
I use Panic San in 11pt, or Source Code Pro in 12pt, as my editing font. The big 16pt font in the file browser looks out of place.
I use Source Code Pro at 11 pt and not seeing a massive difference between that and the file browser:
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