What about a screenshot? Would be nice to see if it is worth installing Thanks!

I’ll update the post to include a screenshot first thing in the morning, Anonymous.

I’ve updated the post. It now has a screenshot of the colour theme.

I like the GTK theme you are using as well, would you mind letting us know what GTK theme you have and where we can find it?

Thanks Barry,

Chrelad

Hi Chrelad,

The GTK theme I’m using is c alled “Nodoka Midnight” — you can download it from Gnome Look (although I just installed the package gtk2-engines-nodoka in Ubuntu).

- Barry

Thanks Barry,

Great theme and thanks for letting us know which GTK theme you are using!

Chrelad

What about the most common languages, say C, C++, C#, Java, Python?

I have a Java set that I use at work — hopefully, I’ll get some of the other languages done soon. I tend to do the languages as I need them.

Big fan of this color scheme

Really good, i’ve been using it since January, if i am not somehow confused. (Perhaps I am )

Cheers!
Droope

It seems that the PHP files are missing ?
root@clusterfucker:~/tmp/geany-darkTango# unzip geany-darkTango.zip
Archive: geany-darkTango.zip
inflating: filetypes.css
inflating: filetypes.javascript
inflating: filetypes.xml
inflating: filetypes.common
root@clusterfucker:~/tmp/geany-darkTango#

Hey Barry,

Any chance you can update the colour scheme with the PHP file? i’d really like to get the same colors as in your screenshot.

Thanks.

Hi Daniel, Josue,

I’ll try and get the PHP file done and uploaded at work today. There are a few tweaks I’ve made to the CSS highlighting which I’ve been meaning to upload for a while, too.

The DOCTYPE is to dark in html, give it a brighter color.

Great schemes!

The only thing i dislike is the default ‘current_line’ color. I suggest to create ~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.common with the lines:

[styling]
default=0xeeeeec;0x2e3436;false;false
current_line=0×0;0x565a5b;true;false

This will apply to all schemes.

I’ve also done the freebasic scheme based on yours. Email me if you want it.

Thanks Manuel! I’ve sent you the email you requested, so hopefully I’ll be able to get your changes included soon.

hey barry,
what font are you using in the above screenshot?
thanks,
greg

Hi Greg,

If I recall correctly, it’s probably “Bitstream Vera Sans Mono“. It may also be “Droid Sans Mono“, which is my current coding font of choice.

Hi Barry, it’s the Droid Sans Mono font. Thanks!

Is there any thought to adding fortran 90 and python?

Is anyone else having an issue with the theme not working with .cpp files in Geany 0.19.1?? I have noticed the same issue with the dark theme but both themes work correctly with .java files its strange.

How do you activate this theme in geany once downloaded? I saved it in ~/.config/geany/filedefs but nothing happens.

Hey, nice theme, but can you change the color of the highlighted row ? It’s really hard to look at. It’s so bright white on top of this dark theme. Awaytng your response

This is great … python please.

Hi Jeff,

Unfortunately, my primary development environment is now Komodo, but I’ll see if I get a chance to look into this.

@nate: Have you tried restarting Geany? The other thing to check would be the permissions of the files.

@Pockata: This is probably in one of the filetypes that I haven’t specifically accounted for… Which language are you editing?

@Guy: Unfortunately, I tend to spend most of my time in Komodo nowadays, but I’ll see if I can get a chance to update the theme with Python support soon. Glad you like it!

@Barry: i’ve messed up something during the install or something like that. When i upgraded to 19.1 it was all ok

I’m also getting the bright highlighting in C++ with the version from git on Geany 0.19.1. I ended up copying a filetypes.common from the Oblivion2 theme in there which helped.

I think that hellp made a fork of the theme on GitHub to address this (and other!) issues. Check out https://github.com/hellp/geany-tango-dark/; the colours there might fit in a bit better than the ones in the Oblivion2 theme.

please… Pascal support… Thanks ^ ^

This color scheme is just incredible. Sometimes I stop the coding and just admiring this beautiful colors

Very nice dark scheme!
I’ve added Manuel’s current line styling though, that makes it perfect.
Thanks!

It would have been so nice if yours supported Perl as well.

Hi Fighter2,

If you like, you can fork the project on GitHub (https://github.com/barryvan/Geany-Tango-Dark), and add in support for Perl. The syntax for filetypes is pretty straightforward, so it shouldn’t be too hard!

Thank you for the scheme, my c++ sources look more leadable now

The keyboard cursor is black and I get confused with current line background color. There is a way to change color of cursor?

Hi Éder,

Unfortunately, I’m not sure if it’s possible to alter the colour of the cursor. However, I have just merged a pull request on GitHub that aims to improve the current line colour — maybe that will help to make things a bit easier!

I love the color scheme a lot. It would be nice to have color scheme for Fortran. Thanks

Great thanks

I don’t know how to activate this theme once downloaded. I saved it in ~/.config/geany/filedefs but nothing happens (I have restart geany many times)

Hi Bastien,

Have you tried the newest .conf file on GitHub (courtesy ylorant), or the CodeBrainz schemes (https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes), which contains this one?

Beautiful theme, Barry… thank you! One problem that I can’t seem to fix is with variables in shell scripts like $TEST. They are black against the dark grey background and very difficult to read. I haven’t been able to find the magic line for changing it and would greatly appreciate a suggestion.

Glad you like it, Tom! Which version of Geany are you running? If you’re using 1.22 or above, you might find that the version of this theme in this collection has fixed the problem.

Hi everyone.

How do I install this colour scheme? I’m just trying Geany and I don’t know how to.

Thanks.

Hi LC,

Which version of Geany are you using? If you’re using Geany 1.22 or great, your best bet is to grab the codebrainz collection of themes, which includes this one. There are installation instructions there on the site.

Hi Barry,

Appreciate your quick response to my question last month and apologies for my late thank you! I’m running 1.21 and my old Fedora 15 desktop reached it’s end of life last Summer so there’s no easy upgrade available. I did install the complete codebrainz collection for 1.21 and modified the theme so it looks good with shell scripts. Found out that View->Editor->Color Schemes was available in my older version which made experimenting a lot easier.

Thanks again!

-Tom

@Lord Cold
Copy the files from the folder ‘filetypes’ into ~/.config/geany/filedefs/ and the .conf file in ~/.config/geany/colorschemes/. In geany select the color scheme in View->Editor->Color Schemes