Changes to "schema" aka "color theme" handling

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2020-09-10 22:28, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/21
> 
> should now work.

This got now merged.

I did some further code cleanups afterwards and some more internal 
"schema" => "theme" renamings.

More testing + fixes + new themes are appreciated .P

For more details, I wrote 
https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-09-13-kate-color-themes-5.75/

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> If somebody could give this some testing, that would be appreciated.
> 
> You need latest master syntax-highlighting due to some bugfixing + the 
> branch of
> that request.
> 
> Feedback (+ fixes) appreciated.
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> On 2020-09-07 23:16, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the first part of this stuff is now merged.
>> 
>> In
>> 
>> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/21
>> 
>> I am working on completely removing the old schema stuff and only
>> using KTextEditor::Theme
>> as basis for the coloring.
>> 
>> The actual usage is already OK, the remaining missing pieces is the
>> saving of the configuration
>> as JSON files.
>> 
>> Any help (and testing) welcome!
>> 
>> Just ping me in the merge request.
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>> 
>> On 2020-09-02 22:24, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>>> KTextEditor uses since long the KSyntaxHighlighting framework to
>>> provide the highlighting instead it's old own code.
>>> 
>>> But for the coloring, we bypassed all stuff provided by this 
>>> framework.
>>> 
>>> For the frameworks release in October I want to change this and 
>>> switch
>>> over to the color themes as provided by KSyntaxHighlighting (but 
>>> still
>>> allow to configure them like now via the GUI and provide own ones in
>>> the "old" style).
>>> 
>>> The matching merge request is:
>>> 
>>> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/20
>>> 
>>> If you have some time to test this, feel welcome!
>>> 
>>> Beside that, it would make sense to provide some more bundled themes
>>> (if available as MIT licensed stuff), see this development issue for
>>> some potential candidates:
>>> 
>>> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/issues/2
>>> 
>>> Contributors welcome ;=)
>>> 
>>> The stuff must end up as JSON file in
>>> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/tree/master/data/themes
>>> 
>>> kate-editor.org will provide some auto-generated overview with 
>>> example
>>> renderings, like we do already for the syntax highlightings:
>>> 
>>> https://kate-editor.org/themes/
>>> 
>>> (that stuff is generated via
>>> 'https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/blob/master/data/generators/update-kate-editor-org.pl',
>>> improvements welcome, too)
>>> 
>>> Greetings
>>> Christoph

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