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  2. QTCREATORBUG-14803

Add Solarized environment themes and editor color schemes to Qt Creator

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      http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

      One article called it the Most Important Color Scheme in Computer History.

      The guy spent six months working on it. I like the current dark theme in Creator, but I think such a well-designed, widely used palette would be better.

      Editor support exists, but that doesn't affect the rest of Creator:

      https://github.com/artm/qtcreator-solarized-syntax/blob/master/solarized-dark.xml

      It also doesn't seem to apply cleanly (see attachment), with some caveats about Creator's behaviour in the notes:

      Apparently, Qt Creator:

      • ignores some of the attributes (e.g. background of CurrentLineNumber, foreground of SearchResult)
      • derives extra colors from the style (for example for the backgrounds of nested blocks)
      • derives gradients from some colors (e.g. Occurences). I haven't found a way to control all aspects of these elements. I let Qt Creator control the color of Occurences.Rename and (in the light style) of SearchScope)
        composes the gradients / backgrounds in some cases which makes the result differ from style color. This makes the current line background lighter then expected, for example.
      • different types of background highlight which keep the thext color, mean I had to deviate from the canonical solarized.

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        1. ColorblindComparison.png
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        2. ColorComparison1.png
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        3. ColorComparison2.png
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        4. ColorComparison3.png
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        5. Qt_ColorComparison.png
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        6. qtcreator-dark-theme-with-solarized-dark.png
          qtcreator-dark-theme-with-solarized-dark.png
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            thohartm Thomas Hartmann
            mitch_curtis Mitch Curtis
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