I have been using VIM/xterms with a dark background for coding. On OSX, MacVim and Terminal can both be themed to be light-on-dark. Xcode 3.2 allow the same customization for its editor using color schemes, but is there a way to do the same to its other UI panels ("Groups and Files" left pane and the list view top pane for example)? If not, is there a quick way to toggle both panels on/off?
A:
System Preferences => Universal Access => White on Black (or Control-Option-Command-8)
If it needs to be an Xcode-specific solution then you could try asking on Apple's Xcode-users mailing list, where some of the Xcode engineers hang out and the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty good: [email protected].
Paul R
2010-04-22 20:26:31
Thanks for the reply. I am aware of the option, but it is system-wide as I understand. Everything looks now like photo negative (drop shadows now look like halo glow, kinda amusing actually), also I will have to get a different editor theme that takes the reverse video into account. Furthermore, I have to fix up the other dark-themed apps I already use (Terminal, xterm, etc), and I don't have a solution for things like web browser content. So unless the reverse-video can be made app-specific, the solution is likely not going to be feasible.
pokkimon
2010-04-29 02:49:24
OK - added further suggestion above...
Paul R
2010-04-29 07:28:22