DlangIDE Themes

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 09:51:18 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 09:17:24 UTC, Chris wrote:
>
>> They shouldn't be hardwired. Best would be to load them 
>> dynamically with their respective names encoded in the xml 
>> file. In this way people could add their own themes as they 
>> see fit. I wouldn't mind creating themes and adding them to 
>> DlangIDE as a humble contribution.
>
> Don't forget that contents of all those files in resources.list 
> is also "hardwired" into the executable, so there's not much 
> difference between mentioning something in such list file and 
> in the source code. Of course, dynamic loading would be a nice 
> thing to do, in addition to what there is now.

Sure, but changing `resources.list` is trivial and can be added 
to the docs like so "Add the path to your theme file to 
`resources.list` and restart DlangIDE."

It has to be hardwired somewhere, but it shouldn't be the themes. 
Other editors/IDE's allow you to load your own themes. This is 
important, because apart from aesthetics, some people might find 
certain themes easier on the eye than others, e.g. color blind 
people or people with some sort of visual impairment.