[Scilab-users] turn scilab theme into dark
Claus Futtrup
cfuttrup at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 15:04:55 CET 2021
I share the concern.
Scilab 6.1.1 was released in July (a few months back).
Could we make a target for the next release (e.g. next spring or
summer), maybe a wish list? ... something to work towards.
Best regards,
Claus
On 18-11-2021 11:48, Chin Luh Tan wrote:
> It has been a while since I was away from the Scilab mailing list, in
> fact, I am of the opinion that the Scilab Developer Community seems to
> be reducing over time...
>
> I was a half-cooked developer (maybe not even half-cooked) who had
> been playing around with Scilab for quite some time. I have to agree
> that after the ESI taking over, the Scilab team focus seems to be less
> on the "Community Version", and the enthusiasm of the Community
> Developers just could not heat up, as there are none official
> activities initiated from the ESI as per my understanding.
>
> I do like Scilab, alot, but seeing this pace of moving, sooner or
> later, I worry that Scilab will eventually disappear... sorry to say
> that.
>
> Regards,
> Chin Luh
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 18:32, Stéphane Mottelet
> <stephane.mottelet at utc.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Sorry for being rude but who in the (zombie) Scilab community
> would have some time to develop such fancy stuff, when so many
> basic things such as a decent html redering of help pages is
> missing ? BTW you ask for a dark mode but Scilab is slowly but
> irremediably sliding to darkness...
>
> I was recently interviewed by students of a french engineering
> school (not mine) on my feeling about the past, present and future
> of Scilab, and one of the points I mentioned is the death of the
> aforementioned community. First by its size then by its age
> distribution and finally by its lack of investment in the
> development of Scilab itself. The only newcomming users I have met
> this year on StackOverflow are students who were told to do some
> homework by their math teacher. None of the brilliant students I
> meet each year in my course (which uses Scilab) are interested in
> developping Scilab. Recently one of them was hired as a research
> engineer at Inria to work in the Scikit-learn consortium hence
> Python stuff !
>
> When I read such (legitimate) demands as the one formulated by
> David, I am not sure that actual Scilab users are aware of the
> situation. One the one hand ESI hosts the rest of the Scilab team,
> which has its own business plan and spends its time on
> developments which are not available to the community (e.g. the
> Scilab Cloud), and on the other hand some (dumb ?) guys which
> still spend (waste ?) their time to fix what they can fix or
> consider to be fixed. I have to say that the Scilab team does help
> us when we ask some help, but the initiative to fix this or that
> must come from us.
>
> As far as I am concerned I consider that working on solvers
> (nonlinear equations, differential equations, optimization, ...)
> is a priority of higher level than gui stuff. I met so many people
> trying (and failing) to solve real/big problems with Scilab that I
> could not just give up and tell them to use Matlab. That's why I
> rewrote from scratch sci-ipopt in order to allow Scilab to solve
> efficiently nonlinear optimization problems. That's why I am
> currently interfacing the SUNDIALS ode/dae solvers (which are
> already used in XCos). The Kinsol equation solver (also from
> SUNDIALS) could also be interfaced, in order to provide an
> alternative to the very poor lsqrsolve (missing features like
> positivity constraints and sparse jacobian). However, when I write
> help pages I realize the very poor rendering of them in Scilab
> help browser (this is due to the very poor css support of actual
> (Swing) html viewer). I have some helpfull hints for the
> (unconscious) person who would want to spend some time on this
> issue, provided that she/he knows Java.
>
> If you think you can contribute to the debate just express yourself.
>
> S.
>
> Le 18/11/2021 à 09:20, CHEZE David 227480 a écrit :
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I‘m wondering if anyone already looked for developing a “dark
>> mode” for Scilab look and feel, following dark mode or dark theme
>> selected in the OS. If not linked automatically to the OS theme,
>> then it might be custom colour and code colorization
>> configuration in this perspective that could be shared ?
>>
>> Thank you for any hint,
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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