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Finding Participant comments the source code coloring. He doesn't like that the color of strings is too prominent (red/purple?) and that Javadoc comments have the same color as regular comments. Severity 1 participant didn't like the default java colors Recommendation Take this participant's opinion into consideration when designing new default color profile
Yes we need a new coloring scheme for NetBeans. The current one is several years old and does not match current standards. We agreed that HIE will work on it. Reasigning
Just for inspiration, here is hundreds of color schemes contributed by Vim users: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/index.html Please, update 'City Lights' colors too.
Should probably be done in M10. Jano?
Stepan is working on it.
According to hrebejk he will take care of this. It should be ready for M10. A link to a new doc related to F&C: http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/editor_fonts_colors/Editor_fonts_and_colors.htm
there is missing specification for: - preprocessor commands (green text is used now so it is in collision with the proposal) - for inactive preprocessor block background - for active preprocessor block background I protest against this change (1 day before feature freze) until complete specificatio will be available.
Could you please send me a file with all missing items in it. Will add it to the spec instantly. Java highlighting is done and other files will take about 1 hour to finish. The spec has been out since 24th of May, I don't understand why do you protest now one day before feature freeze. Not to mention we can still do some tunning after the FF.
Our team has not been notified and the spec has been linked to this issue on Wed Jun 13. the coloring files are in CVS at: mobility/editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/mobility/editor/NetBeans-Java-preprocessorColors.xml and mobility/editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/mobility/editor/CityLights-Java-preprocessorColors.xml
Hi, I am a Chinese. The default font of java editor is very hideous in the Chinese version. The current default font for Chinese version is "Monospaced" which renders as "SongTi". "SongTi" is a good font for Chinese characters but not for latin characters. In fact, java renders "DialogInput" as "Courier New" in Chinese locale, which looks excellent! Many Chinese developers are complaining about the default editor font for Chinese netbeans. So I suggest you guys changes the default editor font to "DialogInput" instead of "monospace", of course only for Chinese versions. I know many people, not only Chinese, love the appearance more than the innate merits of the software. It is one of the most frequently heard reason why they dont want to switch to netbeans despite of its recent tremendous progress. I hope you guys can hear me, who is from the largest java developer market of the world. The netbeans lovers there need your attentions! Thanks!
BTW, where's the color option for line comments? I like that very much. I think it is very useful to distinguish it from block comments. Since line comments are usually not included in to java docs. I hope that the coption can be brought back in 6.0.
Re(rehte): Glad to hear that! For the latest release we have changed the default font to "Courier New 13". You should be able to change the coloring of line comments for your NB explicitly in Tools>Options>Fonts&Colors. We have introduced a rule, where: "Everything that is comment is gray" in all file types. This makes the code more consistent and understandable for less experienced users and also helps orientation in other file types. Some important words/characters within comments (eg. javadoc, tags) are marked as bold, italic or otherwise. thanks for your comments and let me know how did you like new fonts & colors in NB6.0 ;-) Stepan
If you are going to choose this new washed out scheme as the default can we please keep the old scheme as a theme? ('Netbeans Retro' perhaps?) It doesn't matter how much you change things you are always going ot have a set of people who aren't happy and they are probably the ones who are going to be the most vocal. So this issue is never going to go away. (Same for the icons, shortcuts, l&f etc). Give people a (small) set of themes and let them choose the one that best matches their preferences. They can then make any minor tweaks themselves. (I always change the default font size back to 11, never liked the change to 12). Maybe get Roumen to blog about how easy it is to 'Have it your way' as one famous slogan goes... On the scheme front. Would it break any laws to create a set of schemes representative of the other major editors to smooth transition for new users? Similar to the shortcut settings? We've already seen issues hitting the list box because things aren't exactly the same as Visual Studio <shudder>.
The old scheme will remain and will be called "NetBeans5.5" If there is enough time we intended to have other schemes like "Idea" "Eclipse" etc.
i like how both the opening and closing brackets/parenthesis are highlighted now in java. to be consistent, both the openings and closings of elements should be highlighted in XML/HTML/anything else as well. it would also make it more apparent what the highlighting is for.
Hi stepan_doubrava: I am glad to hear that! Thank you and netbeans team! As to color schema, I think people's tastes vary very much. I suggest that more optional schemas be installed and let people choose whatever they like.
Obsolete milestone, please reevaluate
I think the new schemas settled down now, so we could close this as FIXED. Any objections?