Hi Mike, there were long discussions in the past whether to use system colors or self-defined ones and about theming of Firebug in general. See some threads within this discussion group. Also there are some issues related to coloring and theming, e.g. issue 791 <https://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=791>, 1705 <https://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=1705> and 2704 <https://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=2704>.
While I argued *for* using OS theme colors in the past, I now believe it's better to use self-defined colors. There are mainly three reasons for this: 1. There's different support of system colors between the different OSes. 2. We have syntax highlighting and other parts within the UI, which need more/different colors than the ones available as system colors. 3. Mixing system colors with self-defined ones for text and background may result in bad color contrasts as just one color is predictable. (That's why the panel background uses a white color now.) That being said, there are still a few places in Firebug 2.0 where system colors are used. These may be replaced by self-defined colors in the future. But note that Firebug is completely customizable via CSS and Jan 'Honza' Odvarko describes in his blog <http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/firebug-tip-alternative-firebug-themes/> how to do that. So you can apply your own theme to Firebug using system colors or dark colors. If you want to help to create a theme, which has better support for system colors, you should have a look at the code of the next Firebug version <https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next> and create a patch for it. Sebastian On Monday, August 4, 2014 2:45:11 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > We're in a studio (vfx) environment where color is very important, > therefore we use dark gui themes and natural lighting to avoid affecting > our color perception. It is a bit difficult some times because it's all > the rage these days to skin apps. > > In the past firebug mostly respected the OS theme, but recently has become > far worse, shipping a all-white-background theme. It is a big enough > problem when each application decides to go it's own way, but now we have a > plugin to an app doing the same as well. It's not clear when this trend > became acceptable or encouraged, but it is a huge regression for those of > us who would like to configure our themes in a single OS location. :( > > Any ideas on how to mitigate this white theme? We're not looking for a > "dark theme" per se, merely one that respects the settings of the OS > without configuration. We're on a recent linux with GTK if it matters. > > -Mike > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/77c8fcf8-d8b5-4a9f-9440-63b59201714a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
