[Cuis] [ANN] Cuis-ExtraThemes

[Germán Arduino]

Nice job guys!

2012/5/22 Casey ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>:
> 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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