My gedit colour scheme

I’ve been really busy the last couple of months with some challenging projects, but mostly with Ubuntu. Not event 3 whole months ago I decided I needed some ‘nix muscle to work better, so I made the switch.
And boy, it was not an wasy landing. Being in design and usability triggered a LOT of thoughts: From Free Software in general, and wether to go for loosely managed to closely managed (a.k.a: Benevolent Dictatorship) for your projects, usability in the Open Software world, etc; to getting used to typing “chmod” and search for “man” in a terminal in year 2009, I exposed myself to a refreshing -though sometimes unpleasant and frustrating- view/experience on how software and information are evolving. But those are subjects for a whole series of posts, so I’ll try to keep this one clean.
The reason why I mentioned all that is because I plan on getting into those topics eventually, which I’m sure won’t make a lot of people happy, but as Morpheus said: “All I can offer is the truth, nothing else”. Anyways, before I start “throwing rocks”, -as well intented as they will be, they will surely still be regarded as rocks by some people- I wanted to make a little contribution to make clear that the rocks come from *inside* and not from some M$ lackey’s rantings.
So here it is: My very own colour scheme for gEdit. You can get it from the Gnome Live! wiki and you can check the palette used in colourlovers.com
Some comments: This theme in its current form is basically a fork of the “Oblivion” style, which comes bundled with gEdit. I was looking for a dark theme since they kinda “cut out” the coding area from the total screen real estate, and that makes focusing a lot easier. I liked the dark, tango-based “Oblivion”, but it wasn’t really comfortable on the eyes, so I decided to tweak it a little here and there and ended up with a wholly different style. Which is a good thing, I guess.
Consider it a work in progress, though. pbor himself called the style on which mine is built a “quick example”, and it surely needs a LOT more work in the syntax-specific front.
Roadmap-of-sorts: I intend to focus on webdev languages first, especially css, -its language definition needs a lot of love- and other languages later. The idea is to properly support html, css, php, javascript and python by v.2.0. If you feel like suggesting something or contributing, please do.
That’s pretty much it, hope you enjoy it!

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I feel a little like Bilbo in “The Hobbit”, divided between the feeling of starting a marvelous adventure and the gut sensation of being thrown out to the unknown with a one-way ticket.

I guess that’s just how starting a blog feels like. It’s like putting yourself on a diet: you make a pledge, and are bound to honor it.

Enough analogies. This is my promise: I will do my best to populate this blog with whatever I happen to care about at the time, and to do so in my very own way.

Please read on for very important information. Then there’s the about me page too.

Chau.

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English is not my first language, so if something you read makes you squint, please be kind.

This consideration leads us to another issue/request: If you come across some really weird unintelligible expression involving the romans or FSM, please, assume it’s an attempted joke.

PD: Yes, I know it looks silly for a web developer to keep a hosted blog, but I’m still working on my site and honestly don’t need to bother in a custom install. For now.