http://kassens.net/ Jan Kassens' personal Blog en-us Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:56:37 -0600 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:56:37 -0600 http://kassens.net/articles/a_better_macvim_icon.html Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600 jan@kassens.net (Jan Kassens) http://kassens.net/articles/a_better_macvim_icon <p>The default MacVim looks rather outdated. Drew Yeaton hated the icon enough to create this beatiful replacement.</p> <p><img src='/static/thumbs/icon_macvim_span2.png' alt='' /></p> <p>Download: <a href='/static/macvim.icns'>macvim.icns</a></p> <p>Source: <a href='http://dribbble.com/shots/337065'>dribbble.com/shots/337065</a></p> http://kassens.net/articles/making_sublime_text_2_pretty.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600 jan@kassens.net (Jan Kassens) http://kassens.net/articles/making_sublime_text_2_pretty <p>I recently started using <a href='http://www.sublimetext.com/2'>Sublime Text 2</a>. It&#8217;s a copy of the good parts of TextMate, with improvements on the bad parts. &#8220;Command T&#8221; is quite a bit faster on bigger projects, it has split windows to see multiple files at a time and plugins can be written in Python. Only visually is Sublime lacking behind TextMate in the default setting. Fortunately, there are ways to fix the visual appearance.</p> <h2 id='get_a_nice_icon'>Get a nice icon</h2> <p>The default icon of Sublime Text 2 (left) looks imho rather ugly. Luckily, multiple people have created alternative icons. I like the one create by DesignKode (second from left) the most. If you prefer to keep closer to the original icon, Daniel Matarazzo and Dan Perrera have created other nice replacements.</p> <ul class='media-grid'> <li> <img src='/static/thumbs/icon_original_span2.png' /> </li> <li> <a href='http://www.designkode.com/blog/sublime-text-icon'> <img src='/static/thumbs/icon_designkode_span2.png' /> </a> </li> <li> <a href='https://github.com/dmatarazzo/Sublime-Text-2-Icon'> <img src='/static/thumbs/icon_dmatarazzo_span2.png' /> </a> </li> <li> <a href='http://dribbble.com/shots/311515'> <img src='/static/thumbs/sublime_dan_perrera_span2.png' /> </a> </li> </ul> <h2 id='get_a_nice_theme'>Get a nice theme</h2> <p>Not only is the default icon ugly, but the default theme also doesn&#8217;t really look right. Fortunately, <a href='http://www.buymeasoda.com/'>Ian Hill</a> did an excellent job at creating the <a href='https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/'>Soda theme</a> as an alternative to the default theme. It ships in a beautiful light and dark variant.</p> <ul class='media-grid'> <li> <a href='/static/full/soda_light.png'> <img src='/static/thumbs/soda_light_span5.png' /> </a> </li> <li> <a href='/static/full/soda_dark.png'> <img src='/static/thumbs/soda_dark_span5.png' /> </a> </li> </ul><p> <span class='label'>Hint</span> Make sure to select the matching syntax highlighting to get a coherent color style across editor and syntax coloring. </p>