Is Your IDE Hot or Not?

I was a bit apprehensive about zenburn, but after playing with it a bit I like it a lot now.
The only change I’ve made so far is to darken the background a bit more. Otherwise the contrast is a little TOO low.

Some more color sets here – http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/CategoryView,category,VS+Color+Scheme.aspx

I’m liking zenburn, especially in comparison to the rather plain, and eye burning colours it uses as standard, but will these work with VS2008? I’m downloading it now, the Express Edition (glad MS saw fit to have another free version, like with 2005), and would love to have a preset colour scheme file, rather than having to change things manually.

I use the Oblivion theme for gedit (included as standard with GNOME 2.20)

I have VS2005. For some reason, the colors and fonts don’t change when I import one of the color schemes. I reset my settings completely and then imported, but nothing. My toolbars however do change. messed up man. any help would be appreciated.

Placebo, take a look at the original Zenburn color scheme file for Vim. There you will find a toggle for greater contrast, and the color values associated with that - you can perhaps copy those if you wish.

Why there’s such a toggle? I noticed that in some environments it’s better to have a bit more contrast. It depends on so many things, like the amount of ambient light coming through a window, even with the curtains drawn. For summer a high contrast is good, for winter the lower contrast can work better.

Cheers,
Slinky

I made a color scheme similar to zenburn for gedit if anyone was looking for one =)

http://www.nazgum.com/2008/07/06/zenburn-color-scheme-for-gedit/

I wrote a Visual Studio Theme Generator. It’s available at:

<a href="http://frickinsweet.com/tools">http://frickinsweet.com/tools</a>  

You input 3 colors and a contrast value and it generates a fully configured .vssettings file.

I am using the Zenburn scheme and so for I think it looks really good.

A problem I came across is when I am using the F# Interactive tool window, after I have entered text and hit the return key the text stays off white while the background is now now white so I can pretty much not see the text, any ideas what setting I can change to make that look more like the output window?

While I am typing the background of the F# Interactive tool window is gray like the text editor. If I highlight the text the background of the highlighted text is a dark green.

Any ideas / help would be appreciated as I would like to continue using this color scheme.

Greatly appreciated, I like a dark background… !

Very nice. I prefer the light [gray] backgroud

How do i revert to the original settings??

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /ResetSettings C:\Documents and Settings[PROFILE_NAME]\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings

this on the cmd prompt did the trick… :slight_smile:

What do u think About this?

http://f.imagehost.org/0373/IDE-BCB.png

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This requirement may indicate a miscalculated monitor. Since I got into the habit of setting up monitors using photographer’s test patterns, I’ve been able to use black on white with no discomfort or glare. Plus, my photographs look really nice as well.My syntax highlighting color scheme is ‘zen burn’ which is freely download able off the 'net, and my font is bit stream vera sans mono 7 I read far more code than I write, and variable-width fonts are easier and more comfortable to read. Fixed-width fonts are a little easier to select with precision during editing, but this isn’t a big deal for me.That would be a good thing when I’m just trying to read the code, but a bad thing when I need to read the comments. I’d suggest you instead make the comments the same contrast as the normal code, but a color unlike anything else. In your case, perhaps green? That way you can mentally tune in or out that color as needed.
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I created a theme settings file based on some of what I liked in other dark themes. A little more contrast than ZenBurn. I also stuck with the default font sizing and style. To me it is the most readable. Some of the themes have such large fonts.

http://blog.rapiddg.com/2009/06/visual-studio-settings-theme/

I tried importing Jeff’s theme, but most of the color settings didn’t come through. I also tried a 2005-to-2008 conversion using the XSLT here:

http://winterdom.com/2007/11/portvs2005colorschemestovs2008

… but again, most of the color scheme didn’t show up.

Has anyone been able to get Jeff’s theme working in VS2008?

Is your IDE Hot or Not? is down at the moment, can anyone share the Parchment scheme for me? I’ve lost my download. TIA!