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The dddark side

For the fun of it I spent most of this afternoon using this dark VS theme, and pushed the font size up a point. A few things I have noted.

  • At first you don't see anything, my eyes are so used to lots of white that my retina was wide open and I could'nt see anything for the first few minutes.
  • After a while you see everything, it's very weird but my focus was w i d e r.
  • After a hour in the editor going back to all white backgrounds is like staring into the sun (which then gives you a headache).
  • You show off your to work mates\friends your hacker colors, start wearing black t shirts, wear sandles and grow your hair long (no chance in my case).

Joking a-side the colors in this scheme are a lot easier on the eyes when your eyes finally adjust to the change in light levels and after a while I was as happy in this scheme as the normal one (and my eyes felt happier), give it a run and see what you think.

Comments

Noticias externas said:

For the fun of it I spent most of this afternoon using this dark VS theme , and pushed the font size

# August 6, 2007 10:42 AM

Justin said:

my eyes!!! lol kinda fun to play with but I wouldn't use it to actually write code with.

# August 6, 2007 11:42 AM

Sameera said:

I've used white-schemes for a long time with VS versions starting from the days of VB 5. Recently my company required me to work on Unix with vi. I couldn't bare it and used gvim with white colored scheme.

But recently, I tried out a dark scheme on VS and now I'm hooked. One probelm that i ran into was when copy/pasting code into a WYSIWYG editor (e.g. on a blog). Since VS copies them in rich text format, and the colors are suited for a dark background, postig it on site with lighter colored backgrounds requires you to reformat the code. Nothing to worry about though. Just a small annoyance.

# August 6, 2007 12:30 PM

Tatham Oddie said:

Thanks for the link Andrew.

For reference, I don't actually use the scheme myself anymore. I never explicitly decided to stop using, it just wasn't something I setup again after my reformat. I think it's more the cange that makes it cool - so for me, going back to the white theme gave me the same experience again.

# August 10, 2007 11:33 AM

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