[Cuis] [ANN] Cuis-ExtraThemes

[Casey ransberger]

Top post: This is great!

Themes are squarely art, and so I hope this critique is okay...

I really like your theme *a lot,* but it think there isn't quite enough contrast in the list views of the browser. I think it's a hair too hard to read the selected list items. If I was you, I'd add a touch more contrast.

That said! This is a better late-night hacker theme than my goofy proof-of-concept contrast dark theme. I did that mainly to see how far I could stretch what I'd done in Theme, but I never worried much about how usable or pretty it was.

With just a little bit of tweaking, we could unload my contrast-dark and replace it with Wintermute in the core system, I think. Wintermute is the better art in this case, or that's my opinion (from this screenshot) anyway. You mentioned running into problems; can you elaborate? I like this and I want to help.

What do you think, Juan? Folks? Outside of the default theme (which should send a thematic message about the intent of Cuis) I really feel that the rest of the themes are disposable fodder to be tweaked or replaced by better ideas.

Overall: great work, David! Once the sun goes down, this may soon be my new default.

On May 22, 2012, at 2:24 PM, David Graham <david at unthinkable.org> wrote:

> On 5/22/12 2:51 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> 
>> Fantastic! Comments below. 
>> 
>> On May 22, 2012, at 12:12 PM, David Graham <david at unthinkable.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I mostly use a slightly tweaked "GrayTheme", but it's a bit too bright for late-night coding sessions, so I created a dark theme named Wintermute (similar to TextMate twilight) and posted it to github.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/davidgraham/Cuis-ExtraThemes
>>> 
>>> I prefer a dark background without a picture for this theme, but didn't see a way to get remove the desktop picture from the theme class?  I've just been evaluating "World backgroundImageData: nil" before changing the theme.
>>> 
>>> I'm happy to add anyone to the contrib list for this repo, just drop me an email.  I thought it would be nice to have a generic package for additional or beta themes.
>>> 
>>> I ran into a couple minor issues that I plan on taking a closer look at.  Should I submit them to the Cuis repo issue tracker anyway?
>> First off, awesome choice of name for your theme! (For the uninitiate, it's from an award-winning science fiction novel called Neuromancer.)
> Thanks.  I don't know why it popped in my head while thinking of a name, but it seems to fit.
> 
>>  Makes me want to create a theme and call it TheBollards;)
>> 
>> WRT background image, I never implemented that in Theme, because I didn't have a good way to put image data into a Theme subclass. 
>> 
>> Of course I forgot all about it, and then I wrote ContentPack. Now that you've reminded me, may I suggest: perhaps we should think about doing a touch of integration between Theme and ContentPack (since they're both already in the core of the system.)
>> 
>> If you get the graphic into the system with a ContentPack, it shouldn't be too hard to add something to your Theme subclass that references it. 
>> 
>> If we do support backgrounds in theme, I do think we should put the new behavior on Theme and make Theme reference the default background image. That way we do everything exactly the same way.
> Sounds good to me.  I'd rather avoid having end users deal with files.
>> Thoughts, anyone?
>> 
>> Casey
>> 
>> P.S.
>> 
>> I'm having a hard time getting to a laptop lately, so I won't be able to try it today. Can I have a screenshot? :)
> 
> Here you go (also on the github wiki):
> 
> <Wintermute.png>
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