I got an idea for Website / Webservice - comments please

[crono]

Hi,

I got a new display (the wonderfull Dell WFP3008 ). It turns out, that the brightness of it is way better than the one from my old 19" CRT. After working a few hours with it, I had to change all my colorschemes to darker ones. I did this for:

• Notepad++ (HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, SQL)
• PHPEdit (PHP, SQL)
• Eclipse (Java, Ruby)
• Visual Studio (c#, XML)
• e-Texteditor (HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, SQL, XML)

and it took a lot of time...

So the idea is to create a Webpage where users can add their colorschemes, save it in a editor-neutral format and generate colorscheme files for different editors / IDEs. I don't know if anyone would use such a thing, but I would be glad if I had found one

Comments, Suggestions, Yes, No 

[CWuestefeld]

ASCII, and ye shall receive:

Is My IDE Hot or Not?
http://idehotornot.ning.com/

[crono]

Yeah - I know this page, its cool for inspiration but you have to configure your editor by hand (or do I miss the option) - my idea is to store the submitted (color) settings and generate the appropriate colorscheme-file for your editor (which is in most cases an .ini or xml file). One theme stored, X theme-files generated

[justice]

Would I like it yes, would it be popular - probably not. choosing ide colorschemes is something you only do once in a long while (months or years), as opposed to for example color pallettes for websites / brochures (every product). So you'd have to balance the effort you put into making the website. I enjoy reading people's blog posts on color schemes and I adapt the default when I install my pc because I never bother to save it out. Making it wider and do the online saving of application settings though  .. (same problem with that actually). But if you enjoy making it I'm sure many people would find it useful, they just wouldn't visit that often for the reason mentioned.

[housetier]

A generic format/syntax for color schemes would be SUPERAWESOME!

[crono]

Yeah - thats the attitube I was looking for  - I will do some research on this