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#549 Editable colours
Implement jcolorchooser or another method of changing text and background colors In order to improve the ergonomics and general appearance of the OmegaT user interface.
Additionally, it would be desirable to have the tags displayed in a color different from the other text, and the capability to change the colors in the different panes. It may also be useful for the user to be able to save custom color schemes.
Comment for information only:
At one time, the use of character-level formatting within the editing pane was avoided because updating of the display (during scrolling etc.) involved a huge processing overhead.
With the addition of new features such as "display source segments", "mark untranslated segments", "automatically check the spelling of text", we now have several cases in which formatting is used, often involving frequent formatting changes.
I would be interested to hear from the developers whether the processing overhead is still considered an issue.
<<Additionally, it would be desirable to have the tags displayed in a color different from the other text>>
This part has been done.
- Render tags in different color in editor
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2120329
I change the title to something more informative.
Didier
I suggest moving color configuration to a file similar to what we have now for key bindings. If there is such file in the user's config folder, OmegaT uses colors set there, otherwise it uses its defaults. That way the users can colors without needing to develop the whole GUI menu/dialogs shebang.
Implemented in SVN (/trunk).
Options > Custom Colours allows configuring all colours in OmegaT. After change of colours, it is necessary to quit OmegaT to see the new ones.
For themes, see
- Colour themes (e.g., light/dark GUI modes)
https://sourceforge.net/p/omegat/feature-requests/958/
Didier
Implemented in the released version 3.1.7 of OmegaT.
Didier