GtkSourceView / gedit Themes

Please do not use the GUI editor to edit this page. It changes the layout of the page.

This page contains third party styles for GtkSourceView based editors. Note that themes for GtkSourceView 2 are compatible with GtkSourceView 3.

How to install

To install a style just place its xml-file into a folder of the style search path.

GtkSourceView 2

A typical search path for GtkSourceView version 2 looks like:

1. ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

2. /usr/share/gnome/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

3. /usr/local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

4. /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

If this does not work in your distribution you can find out your style search path with this python script. To run it you need the python bindings for GtkSourceView 2. In Debian-based distributions this is package python-gtksourceview2.

GtkSourceView 3

A typical search path for GtkSourceView version 3 looks like:

1. ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

2. /usr/share/gnome/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

3. /usr/local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

4. /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

Styles

• Blue Dream

  • A light, clean theme. Screenshot Download

• chela light

  • ported from gvim. Download

• EdiC

  • A light theme for all languages, especially C, C++, Java, and a c.lang config file with added keywords, with an auto-installer bash script. Screenshot Download

• Fluffy

  • A light theme with bright colors. Screenshot Download

• GreenScreen

  • Good for XML and PHP at night... Screenshot Download

• Matrix

  • The Matrix Console for hardcore fans :). Screenshot Download

• Vibrant

  • Vibrant colors for your viewing pleasure. Screenshot Download

Dark styles

• Darkmate

  • A dark theme inspired to Textmate colors with also specific syntax highlight for Ruby. Screenshot Download

• Omega

  • A dark theme, easy on the eyes. Derived from the Oblivion theme. Screenshot Download

• InkPot

  • A port of the vim theme of the same name. Screenshot Download

Styles emulating other editors

• Dreamweaver

  • A theme based on Macromedia Dreamweaver (phps colors). Screenshot Download

• Emacs

  • gnu emacs colors. Download

• Emacs Dark

  • A dark theme based on gnu emacs default colors circa redhat 5.2 (dark slate grey / wheat). Screenshot Download (see also this .gtkrc-2.0 file if you want a larger cursor)

• Espresso Libre (Pastie.org)

  • An adaptation of the "Espresso Libre" theme from Pastie.org, using various nuances of brown. Screenshot Download

• Textmate (Mac classic)

  • A blue theme based on Textmate (Mac classic). Screenshot Download

• Turbo

  • Blue backgrond, yellow text, white keywords... if you ever used Borland turbo pascal and turbo c you know what I am talking about. Screenshot download

GHOP Styles

All five of the following themes were created by Will Farrington as a task for Google Highly Open Participation 2007.

They can be obtained by running:

svn co svn://nex-3.com/gtk-themes gtksourceview-themes

• Cobalt

  • A dark theme based on blues with medium contrast. Screenshot

• Darkmacs

  • A dark, high-contrast theme based on Alexandre Vassalotti's dark emacs theme. Screenshot

• IDLE

  • A light, high-contrast theme based on the theme of the same name at pastie.caboo.se (which is in turn based on the scheme used by the Python IDE, IDLE. Screenshot

• Slush and Poppies

  • A dark, medium-contrast theme based on the theme of the same name at pastie.caboo.se. Screenshot

• Twilight

  • A dark, low-contrast theme based on the theme of the same name at pastie.caboo.se. Screenshot

All screenshots of themes as of SVN r15.

Resources

• Gtksourceview

• badschemer: A utility for creating and editing GtkSourceView2 style schemes.

• vim2gtksourceview2: A script to convert vim themes to gtksourceview 2.0 themes.

Comments

Please stop listing themes on this page; rather try to get a section at http://art.gnome.org/ similar to this list for vim: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/index.html (click on "C" at the bottom). It really helps people a lot if they don't have to browse for different screenshots (which might even vary in quality once people start contributing their own schemes). -- SvenHerzberg

Tipp: If you love the vim themes, and you want use theme in gedit, check vim2gtksourceview2 on google code. "This is a simple python script that will convert a vim (gvim) theme (colorscheme) to a theme that will work with applications that use gtksourceview2.0." Tested Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy. Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/vim2gtksourceview2/

I'm not talking about using vim schemes, I talk about this page being so close to unusable that this has to be moved to art.gnome.org . But noone of the maintainers doesn't even have a motivation for this. -- SvenHerzberg