Quite a few default colours in TheIDE text editor are suboptimal:
* The pure white used as backgroud is quite tiring. Slight tinge of yellow, just like a paper has, would be better. The colour selection dialog may allow to set all while background in one operation.
* Right now if I select a colour in the color wheen I cannot reproduce it anywhere else. There's no numeric value and no drag & drop.
* Pure colours (pure green, pure violet) are tiring as well. HCI guides suggest to make these colours slightly impure.
* The background (while) colour of browser, list of files, list of packages etc cannot be changed (I didn't find). It would be ideal to be able to set "global" background colour (with enough of choice among white-light gray-light yellow tinges).
* What I discovered is that any reinstall of UPP (going to new dev release etc) erases all previous settings, including colours. Would it be possible to preserve "harmless" settings like this?
unodgs Messages: 1366 Registered: November 2005 Location: Poland
Ultimate Contributor
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Quite a few default colours in TheIDE text editor are suboptimal:
As syntax highlighing is a very personal case it's hard to make a good default settings. I think it would be the best if you post here a screenshot and file with color settings. Let's people decide what's better.
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* What I discovered is that any reinstall of UPP (going to new dev release etc) erases all previous settings, including colours. Would it be possible to preserve "harmless" settings like this?
This is something to fix in installer. I'll check that out.
"As syntax highlighing is a very personal case it's hard to make a good default settings. I think it would be the best if you post here a screenshot and file with color settings. Let's people decide what's better."
Everything can be done now. I argue that (1) it is harder than it needs to be and (2) that the expected defaults for vast majority of people could be represented more.
* What I discovered is that any reinstall of UPP (going to new dev release etc) erases all previous settings, including colours. Would it be possible to preserve "harmless" settings like this?
Sorry about that. Until it is fixed, you should be able to preserve them by backup of files:
abductee Messages: 22 Registered: June 2007 Location: Germany
Promising Member
well, i proposed some color-schemes earlier ( esspecialy coloring members, etc), but why not have a couple of color-schemes included in the package? ( for example one with dark background, too)
abductee Messages: 22 Registered: June 2007 Location: Germany
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that i will do, i talked also to undogs about more highlightable things ( members, etc ) as mantioned earlier, atm i am filled with work, but come october there will be more time to care about those things. i _might_ even come up with some additional code for assist to do the coloration myself, we will se, come october...
btw, is there any deadline for addditions to the next upp release and such...?
Mindtraveller Messages: 917 Registered: August 2007 Location: Russia, Moscow rgn.
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Also I`d like to suggest increasing a number of Block levels.
For example it is vital when colour scheme is set increasingly darkening sequence of colours (and on level 5 you have white colour) :