In the themes, you appear to be using comment_doc, comment_line, etc., but those don't seem to be used in geany's default style definitions. The default styles appear to be commentdoc, commentline, etc. There may be others, but those are the ones that I found that weren't working; I'd strongly suggest looking at the other styles and seeing if they match the latest configurations.

Not really an issue, maybe the themes available at https://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes could be converted to geany format ?

It would be nice to have "sample" source files for some of the supported languages, to test all the language-specific stuff in the themes. The documentation suggests at least C++, Python, and XML, but I suspect other file types would be welcome too.
https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes/blob/master/ADDING-A-THEME.md#testing-the-conf-file

Printing a text file (filetype: None) with Monokai theme gives an unreadable result. It appears that the text is printed in the text color on the screen: lighter_grey=#dfdfdf. On white paper this is not really visible. This might not be limited to the Monokai theme.

Note: feel free to tell me if this issue tracker is not the best way to ask questions.

I noticed that the background color really used in Geany to mark searches is never the exact color set in marker_search by color schemes, as if a kind of translucency was automatically set. For example, see the following screenshot:

http://www.jpfleury.net/depot-fichiers/png/geany-themes-gedit-cpp.png

Color scheme with my patch sets:

marker_line=0x000000;0xffff00
marker_search=marker_line

but we see in the screenshot that Geany really uses color 0xffffc3 instead of 0xffff00.

Same thing with other color schemes. For example, GitHub scheme sets:

marker_search=;0xc0c0c0

but Geany really uses 0xebebf0.

I tried to play with marker_translucency, but it doesn't change anything.

Do you have any idea why it happens?

I propose a patch to improve colorschemes/gedit.conf. It's based on default (Classic) style in gedit. You can compare color schemes on the following screenshots:

My patch is here: https://gist.github.com/1202635

Note: I had to modify filedefs/filetypes.xml. The problem was php_variable=identifier_1. I could not change the style of identifier_1 because it's used in different contexts for a lot of languages, so I changed it for php_variable=identifier_4, since identifier_4 is not used in any filedefs.

I am replace in file filetype_extensions.conf
#~ HTML=*.htm;*.html;*.shtml;*.hta;*.htd;*.htt;*.cfm;*.tpl;*.html.twig;
but highlight not working.

Geany 1.38

I am reload configuration, but not working.

The Symfony 2 template language is almost an exact replica of django's, would be awesome to have support for it, I think the only difference is that files have html.twig extension instead of just html.

Note: I only read the "Unix-like Installation". Since the last release is from 2012, so no fresh tarball to download, so I would change the instructions in readme:

• git clone repo (git clone https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes.git) or download as zip (https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes/archive/master.zip) and extract it
• change to the root directory of the project, and execute 'make install'
• go to geany (no restart seems to be required) and chose your color scheme:
  "View" -> "Change Color Scheme..."
  (BTW this is not obvious, so better to document, I first searched it in Preferences)

Thank you so much, this is what i need

Dracula LAF.

thanks. thank you so much codebrainz

There used to be a

php_simplestring=

and

php_hstring=

Which is important for php as '$var' and "$var" are treated differently. Now however it's all the same damn color and I can't find how to revert that.

I putted some .conf files of themes into ~/.config/geany/colorschemes, but none of them is applied. I see only this null http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21108895/64.png.
It's on Debian wheezy testing 32bit, Geany 1.22.

Noticed the dark themes included with the pack include a white highlight across the current line. This makes them unusable, because the text is also often white.

I couldn't figure out how to use them for the life of me... please add instructions to choose the scheme:

i.e.

To choose your color scheme use Geany's Menu:
View>Editor>Color Schemes>

I have cloned this repo and ran install.sh script which correctly created colorschemes dir in ~/.config/geany/. However if I open geany and try to find where I can actually set these themes I cannot find the option anywhere.

Geany version: 1.23.1, distro: Ubuntu trusty

Also, please write proper instructions on how to select and set a theme.

Otherwise very pleasant theme Zenburn have one outstanding issue with caret (cursor) color: it is almost indistinguishable from the background. I would like to propose a change of caret color from black to white (as in some other dark themes) or to any light color.

I don't understand what do I have to do to use it on Geany 0.21 which I installed from PPA, and don't want to remove and build everything from source

On main page it says don't use this branch use 0.21.
On 0.21 branch says don't use even this branch use some deprecated instead
And guess what? That link to deprecated is 404

Why is it so complicated? Why can't I just copy those files and use?
Of course, just copying doesn't have any effect

Distro: Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit
Version: git latest

Whenever I try to use any of the themes after installing both geany and geany-themes from source, nothing happens. After installation, all the themes show up under View > Editor > Color Schemes but choosing any of them has no effect. (opening the menu again shows that the theme I chose before is "selected" as far as Geany knows.

This may be related to a recurring issue I've always had with Geany. It seems to be aware (to some extent) of my .config/geany directory, but changing things like filedefs/* doesn't seem to stick. (I always end up throwing my hands up and using /usr/local/share/geany or /usr/share/geany instead.

I've tried using geany -v and examining Help > Debug Messages but neither seems to yield anything useful. If there are further ways to debug, I'm more than happy to try them out.

Thanks!

I would like you to add this schema

repository link https://github.com/diazvictor/geany-winter-scheme

A dark scheme I made that would look reasonable for geany.

https://raw.github.com/Redoubts/SpyderDark/master/SpyderDark.conf

As you know, Geany can highlight diffs/patch files. The main point of doing this is to make changed lines more visible, outstanding, because they are the important stuff. So yes, highlighting. Dark Fruit Salad and Zenburn are not even trying. But don't take my word for it; take any diff and try them. Both themes do highlighting of added lines poorly, but both fail miserably in case of deleted lines.

I didn't try experimenting with colors yet, but there are themes that I personally feel being particularly good at highlighting diffs, like Tango Light and Kugel (conventional red and green) and Oblivion 2 (unusual green and blue).

You can also say that GitHub theme went wrong with acid green on white for added lines. Luckily, there's no need to look for suitable colors as they are found on github.com.

clear

With new clean install geany 1.24.1 and installing color themes with install.sh I have broken highlight double and single quotes.
In image - left what is now and right how it was in older version upgraded from 1.22.

Extract the tarball and copy all of the files in the colorschemes directory
to your ~/.config/geany/colorschemes/ directory. Create that directory if it
doesn't already exist.

I did this, I also copied the filedefs folder to ~/.config/geany/filedefs. I closed and restarted geany, but I don't see any of the themes in the options when I go to View -> Editor -> Color.

How do you install these?

Please add support for the Tomorrow themes ( https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme#readme ). As far as I go they're pretty excellent and I think that they'd make a great addition to Geany's selection of themes.