Saturday, March 28, 2009

Komodo Edit dark theme

For some time now, I developed some computer related eye fatigue, which kinda sucks and I believe this is related (in part) with the white background of my text editor(s). That's why I decided to try a dark theme in Komodo Edit. The one shipped with the editor is a bit ugly, I wanted something more like Twilight for Textmate and any Google search for Komodo themes returned pretty much nothing. So, here's my creation, inspired by all those dark themes out there, especially Twilight.


If you like it, you can grab the theme file from github. You don't need to know/use Git, there's a download button somewhere on that page.

It only supports PHP and JavaScript syntax for the moment. More to come when I'll have some time. Update: There's Python and XML support right now.

After you download it, put the .ksf file in your Komodo Edit application data folder, more precisely the schemes directory. On my Windows machine this is: C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application Data\ActiveState\KomodoEdit\4.3\schemes.

8 comments:

Tudor said...

I'm learning to use vim now, and yes, I'm also becoming a fan of dark backgrounds.I use the "desert.vim" color scheme.

Anonymous said...

thank you.

Ionut G. Stan said...

Tudor, using desert.vim is basically how I discovered I like dark backgrounds, but it is too colorful in my opinion and unfortunately I don't have that much time to invest in learning vim. Not for the moment at least...

Hey, Anonymous, I'm glad you liked it :)

Micah said...

any change it'll work with html? I just got started with komodo edit, had intype before that with a dark theme and loved it.

Ionut G. Stan said...

Micah, I haven't touched the HTML coloring too much yet. I've been doing some work on the XML highlighter (there's a screenshot on GitHub) but, honestly, I don't like the outcome. So, basically you can use HTML with this dark theme, but it's not really pleasant to look at. Hopefully I'll have a little time this weekend to take a look at it.

I'm glad you're interested in using it.

Vladimir said...

Thanks for this!.

I copied it into "/usr/lib/komodo/lib/support/schemes" but did not work ATM.

Ionut G. Stan said...

Hi Vladimir.

After copying the file to your schemes directory, did you choose the new scheme from the preferences menu?

Edit -> Preferences -> Fonts and Colors

srid said...

> You don't need to know/use Git,
> there's a download button
> somewhere on that page.

You could also directly link to this: http://github.com/igstan/komodo-themes/raw/master/Twilight.ksf

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