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Dark theme
Ok... this one more suggestion and i'll shut off for today ;-)
Possibility of configuring colors and other display related settings for the diverse panes of linqpad would be welcome...
Saving this settings for share would also be a great feature...
At least a "dark theme" should be included...
Ones like sublimeText dark themes woulb be of great value...
;-)
ZEE
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Thanx!!!
Is there any reason you wouldn't want this to be the case? I can see why the code editor is special and how you might want to give it special fonts and colors. But for the other UI widgets, why would you want it to be different from the rest of the shell? IOW, if you like menus, treeviews and dialog boxes to be dark-themed in LINQPad, wouldn't you also want them dark-themed in all your other Windows applications?
I've never been able to find an alternate Windows theme that I've been able to get on with to do it system-wide. (But all I really care about is code stuff because that's what I stare at all day long).
One small problem I've noticed with the dark theme (other than the fact that it's not easily discoverable - I was amazed when it worked) is that the snippet replacement colour becomes unreadable.
One other thing - the facility to change user CSS is great. I wonder if you should ship with a light/dark version to make it easier to switch? I created my own basic one and it's not perfect but it's quite a trial and error extensive thing before you find all the colours you need to change.
Most applications work fine with dark Windows themes, but a lot of them actually only apply the Windows theme to SOME elements. You will end up with dark text on a dark background somewhere in a lot of applications. It is frustrating enough that I have always ended up going back to the more standard Windows colors even though I much prefer the dark themes.
Give it a try -- as an example Windows 8 (7, etc.) provides 'High Contrast #1', 'High Contrast #2', and 'High Contrast Black' themes. Definitely these are not the best dark themes in the world, but you would certainly think most applications would support them since they come standard with Windows. But... I'm sure you won't have to try out too many of your existing applications before you find some elements with unreadable text.
ANYWAY... that is why it would be great for LinqPad to allow for dark themes despite what Windows itself has for a theme. I appreciate that the editor has the option but would like to see that extended to the rest of the application.
LinqPad is great as it is, and is a tool I use daily and will continue to use. I only commented in this thread because the question was brought up about why somebody wanting a dark theme in all Windows apps doesn't just change to a dark Windows theme. Tried it! Doesn't work in too many apps!
Thanks!
Mark.
Absolutely love LinqPad, and the ability to apply themes based on VS themes, or make my own themes that affected all the application areas/panels would be the icing on the cake.
Is there currently a way (under the hood) to poke any of these colours?
Thanks!
Take a look here http://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/1022/dark-theme-for-linqpad