<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Top post: This is great!</div><div><br></div><div>Themes are squarely art, and so I hope this critique is okay...</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall: great work, David! Once the sun goes down, this may soon be my new default.<br><br>On May 22, 2012, at 2:24 PM, David Graham <<a href="mailto:david@unthinkable.org">david@unthinkable.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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On 5/22/12 2:51 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Fantastic! Comments below.
On May 22, 2012, at 12:12 PM, David Graham <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:david@unthinkable.org"><david@unthinkable.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/davidgraham/Cuis-ExtraThemes">https://github.com/davidgraham/Cuis-ExtraThemes</a>
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?
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<pre wrap="">First off, awesome choice of name for your theme! (For the uninitiate, it's from an award-winning science fiction novel called Neuromancer.)</pre>
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Thanks. I don't know why it popped in my head while thinking of a
name, but it seems to fit.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> 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.
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Sounds good to me. I'd rather avoid having end users deal with
files.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Thoughts, anyone?
Casey
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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? :)</pre>
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Here you go (also on the github wiki):<br>
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