✨ Editor/Terminal Color Themes

[austincondiff]

Let's create our own set of pre-bundled themes.

• We can provide similar ones to what Xcode comes with along with a few of our own.
• Each theme will have the option to have a light mode and a dark mode that can optionally change when the user switches light/dark mode.
• We will have a setting to use the themes background, or use the standard window background which is tinted by your wallpaper.
• We can also provide "smart themes" which generate a theme based on the users tint color (See #46)
• We might leverage some work being done in #76.

Related issue #187.

Questions

• Will themes each be extensions like in VSCode or will they be separate from themes in some way?

[underthestars-zhy]

We could create a theme standard. And people can add their theme. It should be separated from the extension

[Jeehut]

I like the idea of adding color themes for syntax highlighting. But I think "smart themes" based on wallpaper background or tint color should be the second or third step. First, we should provide a decent set of popular theming styles, including some that have really good contrast for accessibility. Next, we should build a custom theme editor so users can duplicate the existing and adjust them to their needs. After that, we could make them export- and importable (e.g. as JSON files).

Also, the default theming style should be one that's popular and that has a good contrast. The current one is actually quite hard to read, I also don't like the color style (which is subjective, but I'm using the default anywhere else so I'm not very demanding), see here for example:

[austincondiff]

@CodeEditApp/admins what do we want to do with this issue? We have some themes, could we create new issues for future work?

[iggy890]

This seems like an issue that is hard to fix, SwiftTerm which is the package we're using is no longer receiving updates. We should either create a fork of SwiftTerm and edit that fork or change package.

[matthijseikelenboom]

What makes you say that the project isn't receiving updates anymore? The latest commit was 4 days ago?