Dark ISE Theme

[mattmcnabb]

So I'm thinking about adding a dark theme to go along with the ISE theme added this spring. My thoughts are that I'd like to keep the console colors as-is, but have dark theming in the editor. Also, I haven't decided whether the UI theming should be kept light like the current PowerShell ISE theme, or whether it should follow the editor theme.

Also, before I begin I'd like to get others thoughts on what they would like in a dark theme for the PowerShell extension. Some of the popular dark themes from other editors are Solarized, Monokai, Dracula,etc. Also, I just found a theme for VSCode from Cometeer called Spacemacs which is quite nice. If you're interested in a dark theme for PowerShell, please reply here with ideas for how you'd like it to look.

[dotps1]

dark theme that came in the spring? is that with the ISE preview thats in the gallery?

[mattmcnabb]

@dotps1 This spring we added the PowerShell ISE Theme to the VSCode Extension. This theme mimics the color style of the ISE's defaults. The thought was that it would make transition to VSCode a bit more comfortable for those used to the ISE. It comes with the bright white editor and blue console that we all know and love. This was made possible with VSCode's 1.13 release which added the capability to color the terminal separately from the editor.

I'd like to improve on that by adding another theme that keeps the integrated console's blue coloring, but with dark tones in the editor.

[daviwil]

A dark theme would be awesome! I'm OK with whatever direction you want to go with it, maybe start working on something that looks good to you and then post screenshots here for feedback from others?

[pcgeek86]

Have you seen the Blackboard theme? I'm not really sure why, but it looks really pleasant and nice. I think it's the contrast that makes it easy to read, without being overly saturated color-wise.

[mattmcnabb]

Working on a solarized one, but still have some UI elements to theme

Maybe we should have more than one?

[TylerLeonhardt]

context: This should be just modifying https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/blob/master/themes/theme-psise/theme.json

as far as I know.

[mbrinkho]

Just a thought - if you change the user settings you can get the white on blue with any theme you like.

    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "terminal.background": "#012456",
        "terminal.foreground": "#F5F5F5"    }

[mattmcnabb]

I know it's been a while, but I just got around to looking at this again. Any objections if I start with recreating the default themes, but with the PowerShell console colors?

PowerShell Dark (Visual Studio)

PowerShell Dark+

PowerShell Light (Visual Studio)

PowerShell Light+

PowerShell Quiet Light

[TylerLeonhardt]

Oooo those look great! I think that's a great idea. Have these and the current ISE theme and I'd consider this issue resolved 😊

[mattmcnabb]

@tylerl0706 Thanks! I'll get this done soon - just want to add a little pizzazz to the terminal title bar in dark themes. What branch should I submit the PR to?