Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

[alex]

On Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 21:25:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:47:43 +0100
> Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/14/13, Nick Sabalausky 
>> <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Wikipedia's MonoDevelop page says
>> > "Xamarin offers a rebranded version of MonoDevlop 4.0 as 
>> > Xamarin
>> > Studio which now uses platform-specific code in various 
>> > places to
>> > enhance the look & feel." So sounds good :)
>> 
>> Unfortunately they now forcefully bundle the Android SDK, 
>> which I have
>> no use for, but have to wait downloading 800MB..
>
> It didn't do that for me. *shrug*
>
> Unfortunately, Xamarin tries to force its own color scheme, and 
> only
> partially succeeds at it, leaving the program filled with
> barely-readable "light-on-light" text and other text that 
> appears
> partially-rendered kinda like "anti-aliasing gone terribly 
> wrong" (not
> to mention lots of eye-searing plain-white backgrounds). I'm 
> not a GTK
> fan, but when I get a chance I'll have to try compiling the
> plain-vanilla non-Xamarin MonoDevelop if there indeed isn't a 
> pre-built
> Windows version of it.

Nope. You can switch it so some darker schemes. I also switched 
it to some darker background because it also was too bright for 
me.