How do I change the colours in SharpDevelop to a dark theme?

Question

I love the textmate themes, specifically I like 'Twilight' but Im happy with any dark textmate like theme's to use with SharpDevelop.

The posts I've found online so far have all had broken links to the source/code.

Wendiwendie

Answer 1

There are no themes for SharpDevelop, but you can use Tools > Options > Text Editor > Highlighting to change the colors of the text editor.

Badajoz

Now you should change the sentence to "there was no themes" :) community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/christophwille/archive/2012/08/… – Ryswick

There are really no themes in term of docks and toolbars around the source-code window. So, even if you change code highlighting colors to a dark theme, the rest of the SharpDevelop will remain bright-white, torturing your eyes with insane contrast. Compare: i.sstatic.net/HLt6A.jpg With: community.sharpdevelop.net/photos/christophwille/images/43107/… – Antechamber

Answer 2

If you use SharpDevelop 5, you can use my custom theme (tailored mainly for c#). Add the following content within the properties tag in %APPDATA%\ICSharpCode\SharpDevelop5\SharpDevelopProperties.xml

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/711ae44acb9a570690dd

Flimflam

Answer 3

In Tools -> Text Editor -> Highlighting there is an option "Import highlighting colors" and supports both vss ans sd settings. My favorite setting is Son of Obsidian, here is the link: https://studiostyl.es/schemes/son-of-obsidian Or google for the theme you like and import it :)

Patronize

Thanks for sharing this :) – Wendiwendie