MHB Optimizing Color Schemes in Kile: Tips for a More User-Friendly Experience

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The discussion centers on optimizing color schemes in Kile, with a user seeking suggestions for a color setup that includes a black background and specific colors for text, math operators, numbers, and comments. Some participants express a preference for terminal-based work over GUIs, highlighting the advantages of a drop-down terminal feature for ease of use. Others compare Kile to alternatives like TeXWorks and Emacs, noting that while Kile is an improvement over TeXWorks for some, others find TeXWorks more efficient for managing small LaTeX files due to its simultaneous viewing of source and PDF. A suggestion is made to use the Agave program for finding complementary colors. The conversation emphasizes personal preferences in workflow and interface, ultimately aiming for a more user-friendly experience in Kile.
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I have recently started using Kile on Ubuntu and I experimented witht the color settings of kile for quite a long time to get a good sceme but I still am not satisfied. Can someone here suggest me a good color scheme?
 
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I tend to go for black background, aqua regular text, and then maybe bright green for math operators, red for numbers, gray for comments. I don't know what other categories you have.
 
Is there a reason you are using Kile as opposed to Emacs or Vim? Do you prefer GUIs or would you rather work from the terminal?

I like working from the terminal. I have it setup as a drop down by hitting F12, with a slightly see through black background.

The drop down feature use with the terminal is the best thing ever over any GUI.

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/250/bt3v.png
 
dwsmith said:
Is there a reason you are using Kile as opposed to Emacs or Vim? Do you prefer GUIs or would you rather work from the terminal?

I like working from the terminal. I have it setup as a drop down by hitting F12, with a slightly see through black background.

The drop down feature use with the terminal is the best thing ever over any GUI.

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/250/bt3v.png
Actually I am new to linux and Kile seemed like a massive improvement over TeXWorks which I was using on Windows. So I was using Kile.
 
caffeinemachine said:
Actually I am new to linux and Kile seemed like a massive improvement over TeXWorks which I was using on Windows. So I was using Kile.

I used Kile for a day so I can't remember much about it. All I know was after switching to Vim first, I didn't want to use a GUI anymore, but then I tried Emacs and I was satisfied.
 
I have actually learned to prefer TeXWorks, even on Linux. The reason is that, since I'm a teacher, I am tending to write a lot of very small $\LaTeX$ files. And the ability of TeXWorks automatically to window both the source file and the pdf, so that I'm seeing them both simultaneously, is a real time-saver. It also will close the pdf automatically whenever I close the tex file. Sure, I'd love to have the key-bindings of terminal Vim, which is what I prefer for most text editing. But TeXWorks saves me so much time! If I worked hard enough, I might be able to get Vim to do the windowing, but it would take a lot of effort.
 
Ackbach said:
I have actually learned to prefer TeXWorks, even on Linux. The reason is that, since I'm a teacher, I am tending to write a lot of very small $\LaTeX$ files. And the ability of TeXWorks automatically to window both the source file and the pdf, so that I'm seeing them both simultaneously, is a real time-saver. It also will close the pdf automatically whenever I close the tex file. Sure, I'd love to have the key-bindings of terminal Vim, which is what I prefer for most text editing. But TeXWorks saves me so much time! If I worked hard enough, I might be able to get Vim to do the windowing, but it would take a lot of effort.
Yeah TeXWorks nice for small documents. But it lacks many features which makes it hard to create large documents in it. I used it for about a year. Still use it from time to time.
 
This is why I like the see through drop down window. I can see my pdf and update with a simple
Code:
C-c C-c return
.

It doesn't update on its own but that isn't a big deal since control c twice and enter takes maybe a second to do.
 
dwsmith, what do you mean by the drop down feature?

Concerning a color scheme, I usually accept the default if an application follows modern conventions (like the while background), which Kile presumably does. The screenshot in Wikipedia doesn't look too bad. Beyond this, there is a program Agave that allows finding "several colors that go well together".
 
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dwsmith, what do you mean by the drop down feature?

Concerning a color scheme, I usually accept the default if an application follows modern conventions (like the while background), which Kile presumably does. The screenshot in Wikipedia doesn't look too bad. Beyond this, there is a program Agave that allows finding "several colors that go well together".

Look at post 3. You will see that my window comes half way down. I have it set up to drop down from the top. This is a non color scheme option I was speaking of which is a handy feature. All I have to do is hit F12 to autohide it or drop it down and F11 makes it full screen if that is what I desire.
 

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