Hello, I'm... Carmelyne

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NetBeans Theme (ct)

October 12, 2007 by carmelyne (updated: 03/14/08)

Cause I just love my theme...don't you love yours? :)

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Update: [March 14, 2008] After scrouring the internet to try to remember which theme inspired it, I finally found it! Eureka! It was by Idlefingers

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I thought I would give NetBeans/Ruby ( nightly build ) for MAC a try after reading George Cook's very convincing article on " Netbeans THE best ruby on rails IDE ". Oddly enough, I just got so used to my TextMate theme that I also ported it into Coda awhile back. Now, I felt I had to port it on NetBeans too. It takes 6 steps and 3 xml files. It's really easy and anyone can do it too. It's not as perfect as I'd wish it could be but close enough.

UPDATE : I'm a NetBeans Newb! Here's a link/resource for packaging a theme (etc): http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/substance-look-and-feel.html . I don't feel like packaging 3 xml files. /woops. Anyway, it's nice to know the folder structure if you're new to NetBeans too.

Here's a screen shot of the theme:

Onward with the steps....

Step 1. Duplicate any existing theme in NetBeans under Preferences / Fonts & Colors; name it whatever you want. I named mine "Karuh Dida" for no particular reason.

Step 2. Open Terminal/iTerm

cd home
mate .netbeans

Step 3. Folder Structure

Step 4. Copy & paste xml file:
org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomFontsColors-highlights.xml
into folder => .netbeans/dev/config/Editors/FontsColors/Karuh Dida

Step 5. Copy & paste another xml file:
org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomFontsColors-tokenColorings.xml
into folder => .netbeans/dev/config/Editors/FontsColors/Karuh Dida

Step 6. Copy & paste 3rd xml file:
org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomFontsColors-tokenColorings.xml
into folder => .netbeans/dev/config/Editors/text/x-ruby/FontsColors/Karuh Dida

Of course, you can take it from here and customize it further. ~~I wish there was an easier way to export/import themes in NetBeans. If you can easily grab TextMate bundles, then themes should be as easy to grab too, right?~~

As far as how NetBeans ranks in my books, I don't know yet. I still have to find out but I can't stand not seeing my usual theme in it so I spent two hours doing that first. Imagine that!

Tags: Dev Tools, Playground, Thoughts

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Archived Comments

rentzsch : Aww, too bad you green-paintbrushed-out the juicy bits of your app ;-)
Thanks for the entry! I look forward to your take on NetBeans' Ruby functionality.

Posted: October 12th, 2007 at 01:55 AM

carmelyne : I'll keep you posted on the functional aspect per Ruby's side of things. It was indeed slow when I first launched the app which gave a bad first impression.
I needed a better inline documentation that's why I'm giving NetBeans a try.

Posted: October 12th, 2007 at 02:14 AM

duard : hmmm, its very good !

Posted: December 13th, 2007 at 08:29 AM