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By Behrang Saeedzadeh (the 5th incarnation)

Screenshot: TextMate Twilight color scheme for NetBeans

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Plus a leakage of the new MacBeans SlidingButtonUI. left rolleyes whistle right


Twilight color scheme for NetBeans

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Unregistered user Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:13:03 AM

Anonymous writes: Nice color sheme! The button UI - I don't know. Way too distracting for my taste. Might be too big a change, but I would try to put everything into one popup button. Either in the bottom bar or within the editor tab bar. Would take too clicks instead of one to restore a window, but it would streamline the whole appearance. And the often used windows have keyboard shortcuts anyway. http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/category/mac-widgets-for-java/ provides a toolbar button implementation that works great. But it's good to see someone trying to improve the visual appearance of NetBeans. I really hope you can come up with something as clean as Coda. Why is the unified toolbar gone?

Behrang Saeedzadehbehrangsa Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:43:09 AM

For the time being I don't want to change the structure of components. Also it is kind of impossible to make NetBeans look almost exactly like Coda as at the moment there are lots of components that are not customizable with custom look and feels.

As for the Exploding Pixels, I already have it in my newsreader smile The SlidingButtons are implemented like standard "recessed" buttons but it is easy to make them look like those "textured" buttons in Exploding Pixel screenshots with the help of client properties: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2196.html#BUTTONS

Also at the moment nothing is final. I haven't even released an official release yet and there are some inconsistencies throughout the implementation that will be fixed in future versions.

Unregistered user Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:35:08 PM

Anonymous writes: That's a great sliding button UI -- way better than what's in NB right now. Where can I get it though? I installed MacBeans, both the prebuild nbm and an nbm I build from the svn's head, but my sliding buttons still have their "normal" chunky look. Is it not yet available?

Behrang Saeedzadehbehrangsa Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:25:53 PM

@Anonymous

I have implemented an experimental SlidingButtonUI as it can be seen in the screenshots but I have not commited it to the SVN repo yet. I try to commit it by Sunday night. Sorry for the inconvenience wink

Unregistered user Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:50:34 PM

Chas Emerick writes: No inconvenience at all. I'm just glad someone with the know-how has taken the initiative. Here's hoping your changes get rolled into NetBeans itself. I know we'll be using it for all of our internal apps. I see the code is GPL licensed. Any chances of that changing to BSD, CPL, or similar?

Gabor Garamihron84 Friday, April 15, 2011 7:48:49 PM

Hi! Is there a way to get this color scheme as a separated nbm? I would like use it, but not on Mac...

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