[TextMate] Folding Triangle Icon Suggestion

[Simon Dorfman]

Hello,
I'm just trying out TextMate and I very much like the feature for collapsing
brackets.  (I remember seeing a post on some mac blog about using
OmniOutliner to write code just so a similar feature could be achieved.
Anyway...)

However, I have a suggestion.  I have trouble distinguishing between the
little triangle icons used on the left side.  I was thinking adding color to
them would make it much easier to see which is the top and bottom and which
is collapsed. So I looked in the resources of the app and found the graphics
files and tried changing them.  The colors I chose are perhaps a bit much,
but perhaps this post will inspire someone else (or the developers) to come
up with a better color scheme.

I went with a red-yellow-green stop-light color metaphor.  Green is the top
of an open triangle.  Red is the bottom of an open triangle.  And Yellow is
a collapsed triangle.  If that makes any sense...

Basically, I changed these files:
Folding Bottom Cap.png  -> tint Red
Folding Collapsed.png  -> tint Yellow
Folding Ellipsis.png  -> tint Yellow
Folding Top Cap.png  -> tint Green

I've attached a zip containing my newly tinted PNGs.  I'm not sure if this
mailing list will let attachments go through, but if it does, enjoy.
Otherwise, I guess you'll have to tint 'em yourself.


Simon in New Orleans

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