Solarized Dark - Find and Replace is largely unreadable

microsoft / VS-ColorThemes

Visual Studio Extension that installs additional color themes

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JustinClareburtMSFT.ColorThemesforVisualStudio

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Solarized Dark - Find and Replace is largely unreadable #114

Open philipmat opened 3 years ago

philipmat commented 3 years ago

Several issues:

Text on "Find in Files" and "Replace in Files" is black on dark background
Text in boxes is mostly light gray on white
On hover/focus, the text in the search box becomes unreadable. In this screenshot there's "abcdef" with "def" selected and "abc" completely unreadable. The selected text is not that readable in itself.

I can take a swing at a fix if you could let me know what elements should I be looking for in the theme editor.

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019
Version 16.11.0
VisualStudio.16.Release/16.11.0+31605.320
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.04084
Color Themes for Visual Studio 1.0.11

Fulg commented 2 years ago

Did you ever make any progress on this?

Eagle3386 commented 2 years ago

Latest VS 2022 comes with Solarized Dark out of the box, so get rid of the extension, select from options & you're good to go! 😉

Fulg commented 2 years ago

For those of us stuck with VS2019, you can change the CommonControls.TextBoxBackground color using the old Color Theme Editor (or the new Theme Designer) to something more Solarized. I suggest FF003847.

I did not manage to find how to change the dark Tab text nor the purple Tab hover, but I can live with that. It was harder to tolerate the unreadable textbox.

Eagle3386 commented 2 years ago

While I appreciate your efforts & findings, I'm pretty much the opposite regarding being (forced to) stuck with 2019 - nobody should interfere with software engineers demanding the latest VS release. Nobody. Ever.