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Sun, 13 October 2024 13:28

Lance
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mirek wrote on Sun, 13 October 2024 01:52

Lance wrote on Sun, 13 October 2024 06:10
two more minor issues (or maybe non-issues).

1. In dark theme, the Topic++ editor is still in light mode. Would be nice if it can melt with environment.

Colors are user setting. I do not know whether user wants it or not. Normally, theide chooses the scheme on the first run, but then user is allowed to change it any way he likes, so it would not be very nice to change the scheme at that point.

Well, maybe we could solve that with having 2 user configurations, one for light one for dark? But in the next release..

That brings me to another UI suggestion.

Here is how we need to make changes for theme switching, etc.

index.php?t=getfile&id=6975&private=0

The one on IDE tab is convenient. 3 options should be well tuned and easy to change:
1. stick with light theme;
2. stick with dark theme;
3. use the theme setting from Host platform.

The one on "Syntax highlighting" tab is not as well-thought. I recommend to change it to the drop choice similar to the one on "IDE" tab. At the moment we can have these entries
1. light theme (stick with light theme, what the "white theme" buttom will do currently);
2. dark theme (stick with dark theme, what the "Dark theme" button will do currently);
3. "Use host theme"(similar to what the similar one on "IDE" tab would do);
4. "Use default colors" ( what the Restore default colors button would do).

And a check box below or above the drop choice, saying
[ ] Apply this to IDE and topic++

And do what it promises.

Apply similar UI changes to IDE tabs. So that a user can make desired changes from one of the locations without having to set 3 places for one intention.

BTW, "Use host platform" seems to be a reasonable default for me. If a user choose certain theme for his windows system, chance is he would like the same for TheIDE.

BTW, I don't know how to setting colors for Topic++ up until now. I wouldn't notice I need to change setting in 2 places to make TheIDE looks natural in DarkTheme had Ubuntu not provided the convenient way to switch theme in its recent version.

Of course, these are non-emmergent UI refinement that can be done in later release after more discussion. Anyone who agrees with my suggestion, please vote yes. Laughing

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