Hello, I’m new toBaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the background color ofthe Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs because brightwhites hurt my eyes. However,I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / Colorssetting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the Editor. Is there away to customize this? Thank youvery much for any help, and especially for having built this great product andmaking it open source! Bestregards, Alex
Hi Alex,
I know that one of our team members is using BaseX with a dark desktop theme (on Mac OSX), so he might give you some hints.
Could you possibly give us some more information on your environment? What OS do you use?
Thanks, Christian
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex R. Loayza logal3@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs because bright whites hurt my eyes.
However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the Editor.
Is there a way to customize this?
Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great product and making it open source!
Best regards,
Alex
Hi Alex,
currently there is no way (at least no way that I am aware of :-)) to customize the background color of the various editor panels from *inside* BaseX, maybe your OS or window manager might do that.
I think it might need quite some time to provide a dark-theme, as one would need to update the syntax highlighting code as well.
However, I might be interested in this feature as well :-)
Best Michael
On 18 Dec 2014, at 2:16, Christian Grün wrote:
Hi Alex,
I know that one of our team members is using BaseX with a dark desktop theme (on Mac OSX), so he might give you some hints.
Could you possibly give us some more information on your environment? What OS do you use?
Thanks, Christian
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex R. Loayza logal3@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs because bright whites hurt my eyes.
However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the Editor.
Is there a way to customize this?
Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great product and making it open source!
Best regards,
Alex
Hi Alex, hi Michael,
The color schemes haven't been changed for a long time, so the new major release could be a good moment for that…
Past has shown that the major challenge is to ensure that the color handling does not lead to strange effects on specific window managers (mostly Linux-based).
I would be glad to get some more input: Apart from the Editor Panel, are there some other panels in the GUI that need to be recolored (und that are not automatically recolored when changing the OS settings)? You can also provide me with screenshots.
Thanks Christian
Hi Alex,
I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs because bright whites hurt my eyes.
Please check out the latest snapshot. It should now automatically use dark colors if you use a dark theme in your window manager.
Hope this helps, Christian
[1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest
However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the Editor.
Is there a way to customize this?
Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great product and making it open source!
Best regards,
Alex
Hi Alex,
One more thing: We won't spend time in designing additional window themes, but I added support for JTattoo [1], which provides two dark themes. If the library is added to the Java classpath, you can choose among 13 additional Look and Feels [2]. The feature is available with the latest snapshot [3].
Have fun, Christian
[1] http://www.jtattoo.net/ [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Graphical_User_Interface#Look_and_Feels [3] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex R. Loayza logal3@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
I’m new to BaseX, and I’m trying to customize the GUI, by changing the background color of the Editor panel. I always use dark themes in IDEs because bright whites hurt my eyes.
However, I’ve found no way to change that setting in Base X. The Options / Colors setting in the main menu effects changes to panels other than the Editor.
Is there a way to customize this?
Thank you very much for any help, and especially for having built this great product and making it open source!
Best regards,
Alex
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