Re: [gedit-list] Direct color settings removed from gedit?



On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 23:49 +0300, Vesa Paatero wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just recently upgraded my Ubuntu  distribution to a newer version and 
> noticed that gedit of the newer version (gedit 2.20.3) doesn't have 
> something that I the older one (unknown version) did:  Color selectors 
> for setting text color in Settings. The help page for Font & Colors 
> Preferences still says (in v2.20.3):

Your Ubuntu is still an old version (Gutsy?) I have 2.22.3 for Hardy and
the beta for Intrepid has 2.24.

>      "Click on the Normal text color color button to display the color 
> selector dialog. Select a color to use to display normal text in the 
> gedit text window.
>                  
>     "Click on the Background color color button to display the color 
> selector dialog. Select a background color for the gedit text window."
> 
> But, alas, those buttons are not available anymore.  It seems that the 
> color model system has replaced the direct settings for text and 
> background color -- and that's not so good because it pushes the free 
> color selection beyond the reach of  many ordinary (non-developer) 
> users. And the four color models available by default show only black 
> and white for normal text (i.e. not in a programming language mode).

The colour model for GtkSourceView2 is different, and that is what you
are seeing with the upgrade to gedit 2.20+ The modern approach presents
all languages and document formats consistently. See the Highlighting
section in <http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView> for tutorials. 

There are many styles available beyond the default styles that ship with
gedit
<http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView/StyleSchemes>. You can install them
in .local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/ (restart gedit to enable them)


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