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Terminal emulator designed for elementary OS
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Consider using themes #147

Closed donadigo closed 6 years ago

donadigo commented 7 years ago

I think it would be nice if we could expose a way in the UI for the user to set some pre-made themes like we do in Code.

This requires some things to solve. How do we want to store theme information? Is there an available standard format that's already doing that? If not, do we want to create one from scrach?

Nine-H commented 7 years ago

there's a bunch of themes here https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh not sure how to store them, might be worth looking at other terminal emulators.

danirabbit commented 6 years ago

The color scheme is in a dconf key right now, but it's not in a super convenient format.

As far as storing/loading theme information in a more sane way I think my first reaction would be to try to interpret Gtk.SourceView themes so we don't have to invent a new theme format.

As for exposing them in the UI, I would really like to do something like how BookWorm exposes theme options. This way we could intelligently switch both the color scheme of the Terminal and the Gtk stylesheet at the same time. I would suggest just three options: Solarized Light, Solarized Dark, and a popular white color scheme. Then if you want something more complex you could use dconf as you would today.