Boxy – It Was the Most Hackable Theme for Sublime Text 3

[FichteFoll]

Here’s another solution of providing toggleable settings by using a quick panel: https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools/pull/773

Might be worth considering that too since they are fuzzy-searched. The only downside would be that you can’t see what categories are available at first (setting names could be prefixed with their category for discoverability though). The filter text would most likely need to be restored somehow.

FYI, you can also remove the underline for links with text-decoration: none (or text-decoration: inherit, if the former doesn’t work). I’d also make the entire line clickable, not just the box, like you do with <label> tags in HTML.

[facelessuser]

Might be worth considering that too since they are fuzzy-searched. The only downside would be that you can’t see what categories are available at first (setting names could be prefixed with their category for discoverability though). The filter text would most likely need to be restored somehow.

Yeah, I didn’t want to search for a single setting, I wanted to see the settings related to a given topic and see if they were set. That is why I took the popup route. But panel is fine, I just don’t think I would use it and it would clutter my searches with more irrelevant stuff. It isn’t really something I need constant access to, just when I want to make a change, I don’t want to hunt around for all available settings.

FYI, you can also remove the underline for links with text-decoration: none (or text-decoration: inherit, if the former doesn’t work). I’d also make the entire line clickable, not just the box, like you do with <label> tags in HTML.

Yeah, Yeah, I know, I literally just threw it together yesterday . I figured if it got picked up by Boxy, that there may be changes to it anyways; it was more of a proof of concept (that I am using). I also noticed that on OSX, the fake radio buttons turn into actual emoji, while on Windows they still look like font chars. I don’t know, maybe I could pick something that consistent.

[FichteFoll]

Sure, I like the popup settings too. Might even get me to check out the theme at some point.

Which codepoints did you use for theradio buttons? I don’t think any of these[1] qualifies as an “emoji”, but mac has always been a bit special about their unicode rendering.

[1]: http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=CIRCLE

[facelessuser]

I used medium white circle and medium black circle. White was just a circle, and black was a solid circle. On Mac they are glossy colored circles…which is fine, I just wasn’t expecting it.

[kaiser101]

Awesome thanks

[oivva]

Boxy v3.1.0

Starting 3.1.0 linter theme is included into the theme package. Boxy Theme Addon - Linter Theme will be removed soon. More info →

Themes

Add option to highlight text only for selected item in the sidebar
Add linter theme into the theme package

[oivva]

Boxy Theme Addon - Widget Font LG will be renamed to Boxy Theme Addon - Widget Font Size. Other font size addons will be removed soon.

Its aim to have only the one widget font size addon and customize it like Boxy Theme Addon - Font Face.

More details here →

[Equinusocio]

I’ve really started to warm up to this theme set. It is customizable enough to work for a wide range of users.

Unfortunately, I hate having to look up the settings everytime I want to make a change (but I like have the settings ). I have to pull up the theme’s wiki to see all the options, and then enter them in one by one. It’s kind of a pain. So I threw this plugin together to make setting the options easier (it is assuming mdpopups is available on your system, though it could be modified to not use mdpopups). It’s a static list of the options, so it has to be updated manually if more settings are added to Boxy.

It’s pretty easy to use as you just click the link to go to the setting section you want, and then click the checkbox to toggle the item etc.

It is not available publicly on Package Control, though you can dig it out of my experimental plugin sandbox here: https://github.com/facelessuser/SublimeRandomCrap/blob/master/boxy_config.py.

Anyways, just wanted to share this with anyone interested.

How we can use/integrate this inside a theme? just by add the .py file to the theme root?

[facelessuser]

This is was configured for the Boxy theme. It also assumes you have mdpopups installed (as I do). It can be adapted to not use mdpopups if that is your desire. You would need to configure the options to match whatever theme you drop it in. But assuming you are using Boxy, and have mdpopups, you could drop it anywhere and then map the command to the command palette.

[oivva]

Boxy v3.2.3

Themes

Simplify styling of the buttons
Add changelog command
Add dirty accents
Add find panel (console, output panel) padding options
Add internal docs (Preferences) (Starting ST 3118)
Add theme activator
Add presets
Add theme configurator

Color Schemes

Fix popup styling bug when theme is installed manually

[rchl]

Seems like it hijacks shortcut that I use to type accent character - `
It opens the Boxy Config Theme popup.

[oivva]

Seems like it hijacks shortcut that I use to type accent character - `It opens the Boxy Config Theme popup.

This was fixed in 3.2.1. Do the force upgrade:

1. Open Command Palette using menu item Tools → Command Palette...
2. Choose Package Control: Upgrade Package
3. Find Boxy Theme
4. Hit Enter
5. Restart Sublime Text
   • macOS : menu item Sublime Text -> Quit Sublime Text
   • Windows: menu item File -> Exit
   • Linux : menu item File -> Exit

[danpierce]

Hi I just started using BOXY and it nearly has me fully covered, the only thing i find missing is the file icons. is there any way to expand the library of icons or manually add new ones ? I think it covers everything but .coffee and .cjsx at the moment, but missing those leaves a huge gap in the side bar.

Thanks and keep up the great work

[oivva]

Hi, glad that you like it Coffeescript icon is already there, just remove other custom ui themes (more details here).

I’ll add .cjsx icon in 3.2.4

[oivva]

I had released 3.2.4. It will be available soon via Package Control. Resolves problems with:

• R-lang icon
• Coffee Script & React Coffee Script icons

[oivva]

Boxy v3.3.0

Themes

Make Python icon more pythonic
Fix configurator when it’s running right after installation
Fix popup styling in ST < 3119

Color Schemes

Significantly improve markdown highlighting

In Action

[rchl]

When boxy updates, Sublime either always or typically switches back to default theme. Then I have to figure out what boxy configuration and scheme I was using before and restore them manually. Is that expected? Can this be improved?

[oivva]

This is how Package Control updates the current custom theme. You should wait until it finished the updating (theme & color scheme settings will be restored after that). Also you can quickly change or preview each Boxy theme:

1. Open Command Palette using menu item Tools → Command Palette...
2. Choose Boxy Theme: Activation
3. Hit Enter

All your settings will be safe, this command only changes theme & color scheme.

More info about the way of updating the current theme: More elegant way of updating the current theme

[simia]

Boxy theme is great!
I found one little problem - when I set font size of a tab name to medium or larger the letters get cut from below (especially visible if filename contains underscores). Is there any setting I could use to avoid this situation?

[kingkeith]

I found one little problem - when I set font size of a tab name to medium or larger the letters get cut from below (especially visible if filename contains underscores). Is there any setting I could use to avoid this situation?

no, it’s a known bug that the ST devs will need to fix, AFAIK there is no workaround