Christian wrote:
> yes, I decided to step forward and try to get at least some popular
> colorschemes included. It won't make everybody happy, but at least a
> couple, popular colorschemes should be included I think.
>
> On Do, 03 Aug 2017, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > There are two things we need to discuss first:
> >
> > 1. There must be hundreds of colorschemes out there. I'm sure every
> > user has its own favorite. But some are liked by more users than
> > others. In the distribution, I would rather have a limited set, ones
> > we can recomment to users. And a varied set, not two colorschemes that
> > are nearly the same. So we should find a way to make a top-10 of
> > colorschemes to include.
>
> Well, we could theoretically use this list:
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
>
> but I have a feeling that many users do not use vim.org anymore, but
> rather search github directly. Hm, perhaps this list is better:
> http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
> (not sure how to sort on stars)
OK, I suppose we won't get a better top-10 in another way.
> > 2. Picking a color scheme means going through all of them, since the
> > name doesn't mean much. We should try to organize them a bit, at least
> > by light and dark background. Perhaps the background color is the next
> > property that is most important. Some adjust to the 'background'
> > setting and don't define the background color, so that's another
> > category. We should end up with a list like:
> > both_default
> > darkgrey_evening
> > lightgrey_desert
> > darkblue_yellow
> > darkblack_gui_elflord
> >
> > The "gui" is added for color schemese that only support the GUI.
> >
> > etc. We can have the old names source the renamed files, for backwards
> > compatibility.
>
> That would mean, we effectively fork the plugins. I do not like this
> idea. It's just a name. Users can test them and if they like it, they'll
> use it, if not, they will use a different one. Let's not overcomplicate
> it.
The more color schemes we add, the more important it gets to make it
easy to pick one. I don't see this as forking, more like prepending a
directory name.
> In any case, I'd really appreciate, if you could include the couple ones
> that have been sent so far. If users ask for another one, we can later
> include one or two others as well.
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