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inducer / pudb

Full-screen console debugger for Python
https://documen.tician.de/pudb/
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Improve the README file - Add new screenshot and recent screencast link #441

Closed ranelpadon closed 3 years ago

ranelpadon commented 3 years ago

This is the debugger I'm looking for for a long time since I switched from PyCharm/VS Code to Vim/Neovim. I use Pdb++ most of the time now, but this PuDB is a convincing alternative or much better replacement. I think I came across PuDB before in the past but was greatly repelled by the "awful" default screenshot in the GitHub page which I thought could not be customized. I only reconsidered this recently because someone commented about the vim-pudb plugin.

So, I searched YouTube for recent tutorials, fortunately the top result has a good theme in its video thumbnail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJYkCWPs_UU

And that video turned out to be a concise and practical demo of PuDB. And here's a recent one too, and the first question after the talk was "if it's possible to change/customize the theme": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CzJ5bdRDU4&t=15m48s

The point of this PR is that color scheme is very important to programmers, one of the reasons also why we have UnixPorn/VimPorn subreddits. So, including a non-default theme in the README file would be a selling point for some devs which are repelled by the default theme, and could give them good first impressions instead. I updated the screencasts' links and emphasized the themes in the Features section as well.

By the way, thanks for this powerful app! :)

inducer commented 3 years ago

Hmm, turns out the new README looks terrible, the screenshot is way too large. I'll go ahead and fix that.

inducer commented 3 years ago

442

ranelpadon commented 3 years ago

@inducer Actually, at first, I matched the width of the first screenshot, but since they have different aspect ratio, the second/new screenshot looked too small, so I tried to match the height instead.

inducer commented 3 years ago

No worries. My main concern is how off they looked on my Gitlab page: https://gitlab.tiker.net/inducer/pudb/-/tree/68808b8e053500da34672682860814023d6fde27

I still appreciate the nudge to refresh that ages-old screenshot.

ranelpadon commented 3 years ago

@inducer Good idea also to put a representative Light and Dark themes in #442 that would be useful for newcomers. Cheers