On 10/14/2017 05:15 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > Recent eye trouble made it difficult to read black text on a white-ish > screen and I found myself exploring colour schemes with dark > backgrounds. There are some examples on the LyX wiki at > /Tips/ColorSchemes. White text against a blue background has proved > helpful. > > But there is no built-in way to invoke such schemes. The user should > not be asked to change all the colour settings displayed at Tools > > Preferences > Look & Feel > Colors, and copying from the wiki and > pasting into preferences (which obviously is what I did) means > ignoring the warning at the start of the preferences file, "If you > want to make your own modifications you should do them from inside LyX > and save". > > Could a drop-down list box with the names of schemes be added to the > dialogue at Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Colors? I understand > the reluctance to ship LyX with half-baked attempts, so the box would > initially be populated only with the standard scheme that comes with > LyX. But perhaps it could search the user's ui folder for files with > some standard extension like .scheme and add those to the list (after > reconfiguring). The user would then be able to test them at a click > (to the Apply button), tweak them as desired, and save them back to > that folder. LyX itself wouldn't be responsible for such schemes but > in time, given a facility like this allowing easy testing, tweaking > and saving, a scheme might mature to the point where it could be > considered for distribution with LyX. In particular, it would be good > for LyX to ship with at least one dark background scheme.
This seems like a reasonable request, and probably not one that is very difficult to implement. But it's certainly too late for 2.3.0. I'd suggest filing an enhancement request. Please cc me. Richard