Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Ubuntu RPMs A dark colour schema (black background, dark fonts) is easier on the eyes and therefore makes the whole experience of spending countless hours in front of a monitor a whole lot better. It would be nice if kate implemented such a schema. I've tweaked a custom schema of my own. It isn't perfect but does the job. I could post it here if anyone finds it to be of some use.
Patches are always welcomed, so yes, please attach your schema. (I can't guarantee that the kate developers will include it, but they're more likely to include an existing one than create a new schema from scratch :-)
This won't be as needed in KDE4 since kate will by default use the system color scheme (for *everything*, i.e. bugs like Bug 143606 will be fixed), so if you use a dark system color scheme, kate will also use dark colors.
That sounds a bit as a step backwards. The support for custom color schemes is one of kate's strong points. I don't believe that the idea to tweak the entire system colour scheme just to fulfill a single purpose will be gladly accepted by anyone. About the colour scheme, the following was extracted from my ~/.kde/share/config/kateschemarc <schema> [kdevelop - dark] Color Background=0,0,0 Color Highlighted Bracket=216,0,4 Color Highlighted Line=1,16,0 Color Icon Bar=0,0,0 Color Line Number=85,85,85 Color MarkType1=0,0,255 Color MarkType2=255,0,0 Color MarkType3=255,255,0 Color MarkType4=255,0,255 Color MarkType5=160,160,164 Color MarkType6=0,255,0 Color MarkType7=255,0,0 Color Selection=96,96,96 Color Tab Marker=0,38,255 Color Word Wrap Marker=109,114,124 Font=Monospace,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 </schema>
I think you missed the word "default" in my last comment. You can still make your own schemes; nothing has changed there. What *has* changed is that if (on a pristine system) you change your system color scheme to something dark, kate will fully use your system color scheme, instead of something unhelpful like dark red (hard-coded) on dark gray (from the system color scheme). IOW, every system color scheme in KDE4 will also (in a way) be a kate color scheme. So there is less reason to have a bunch of kate-only color schemes. Now, that doesn't me we *shouldn't* consider offering a selection of color schemes in kate at some point. :-) But I'm not going to make that call one way or another.
Since I can see that this works nicely with e.g. Obsidian Coast in KDE4, I think this can be closed now.
Reopening since the colorful code folding marks work really awfully on a dark schema.
> Reopening since the colorful code folding marks work really awfully on a dark schema. Please fix bug 167774 (just created) instead :-). This is different enough to deserve its own bug IMO.
True, but it's not necessary for folding colors to be configurable to work with a dark scheme -- they just need to be alpha blended. Please reopen if you kindly agree. Configurability is of course a valid and important bug, too; but alpha-blending can be done without touching strings and UI, so I think it's useful to fix separately.