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luci_minea
luci_minea
Participant
December 5, 2016

Ok guys, I've found how you can use whatever theme you want, from the Brackets themes, located here:

http://brackets-themes.github.io/

Easiest way is to install Brackets, and download the themes from the Extension Manager. That way it's sure the theme is downloaded and installed properly.

After that, assuming you've got DW CC 2017 already installed, make sure it's closed and do this:

1. Go to C:\Users\Your user name\AppData\Roaming\Brackets\extensions\user

2. Copy the folder of the theme you want, NOT THE FILES INSIDE !

3. Go to C:\Users\Your user name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2017\en_US\Configuration\Brackets\extensions\user

4. Paste the folder

5. Go to C:\Users\Your user name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2017\en_US\Configuration\Brackets

6. Open the brackets.json file.

7. In the second line ("themes.theme": "dreamweaver-light",) modify the name that is bolded. You will have dark-theme by default. Write the name of the folder you've downloaded, exactly.

8. Save the file.

9. Open DW CC 2017.

Enjoy !

P.S.

You won't see the theme in the Interface window, in Settings, but it will work, I'm using it this way !

K
Community Manager
Kratika AgarwalCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 7, 2020

Hello,

We have started working on “Code Coloring Customization” improvements by adding support for customization of generic and language specific colors and the changes are available in our latest Prerelease drop.

With this improvement you will be able to customize Code Colors in Dreamweaver Preferences --> Interface window.

Please join the Dreamweaver beta program from below link and try out the feature.
Please note, that the functionality is in the initial stages of implementation, we expect the build to have some stability issues.
However we are eager to hear from your early feedback.

Prerelease Invite link: https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/9EB451B5-D2E8-46E5-AFA2-78C85442FFA2/participate/CD0C95AA-6274-...


Thanks
Dreamweaver Team

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Daniel Ulysses
Inspiring
November 22, 2016

Mmm ... well, maybe in the next BIG UPGRADE of DW CC 2018, they (Adobe) can make it easier like in Brackets ...

or just make Brackets the Code Editor of DW ...

By the way, I haven't use DW in a long time, I guess I will keep using Brackets ... and if only Brackets had the FTP that DW has

then I probably never use DW at all ...

Saludos :-)

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Paul-M
Legend
November 12, 2016

Themes are OK but the code colouring flexibility is still limited, for PHP and JS developers for example there's no language specific code colouring, a feature that is available in Brackets but NOT in the Dreamweaver integrated Brackets.

Please post a vote here so we can hopefully get full flexibility back for code colouring:

Restore Full Code Colouring Flexibility – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

The code colouring apart from being removed from the options because it's a half finished Brackets integration lacks serious flexibility, no language specific option even if you are prepared to edit the LESS theme file directly has been included.

I had an official response from Adobe that language-specific code colouring which is a feature in Brackets, is NOT included in the brackets integration with Dreamweaver.

Paul-M - Community Expert
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Artoo_Smith
Participating Frequently
November 11, 2016

Hi,

I tried to use the "Solarized Theme" from Brackets Themes  and nothing changed when I restarted DW.

I mad a backup copy of the original files in the "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017\www\extensions\default\DarkTheme" folder  and unziped the ZIP to that folder. and Started DW and went to "Edit->Preferences~Interface" and changed the 'Code Theme' to Dark theme and closed the dialog box and restarted DW and got the original DARK theme.

What did i do wrong?

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 11, 2016

Are you really using a DarkTheme?

Solarize is a light code color scheme.  So you need to work with the LightTheme folder.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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Artoo_Smith
Participating Frequently
November 12, 2016

I just tried that and I still see the original light theme with that yellowish tinted background. 

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IronADDT
Known Participant
November 8, 2016

Hi Preran,

could you give us a theme "ready to use" that restore the dreamweaver cc 2015 code coloring?

Thanks!

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 8, 2016

    Which Code Color scheme did you use in 2015?  There were several to choose from.

    If you know how to work with LESS code, you can customize the code colors manually or choose a theme from from GitHub and customize it to your liking.

    I am using a GitHub theme called RubyBlue.  I copied the LESS file to my DW CC 2017/www/extensions/default/DarkTheme folder and renamed main.less to main_old.less.   I then renamed RubyBlue.less to main.less.  Restarted DW and voila, new code colors with syntax highlighting for PHP.   As this screenshot shows, it's not hard to edit the LESS color codes to suit your tastes.

    Nancy O.

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    IronADDT
    Known Participant
    November 8, 2016

    CC 2017 was offered to everyone with an Adobe ID as a public beta preview.  Did you try it?  Did you provide feedback?  'Cuz that's where the DW team learned what users want.   As you can imagine, there were many different views about which direction it should take.   Kind of like an election campaign.

    Nancy O.


    CC 2017 was offered to everyone with an Adobe ID as a public beta preview.  Did you try it?  Did you provide feedback?  'Cuz that's where the DW team learned what users want.   As you can imagine, there were many different views about which direction it should take.   Kind of like an election campaign.

    The public beta preview are useless.

    Every development team has a leader who takes the decisions for all (not with election campaigns), maybe Dreamweaver's development team not have a good leader...

    The big mistake with Dreamweaver (my opinion, obviously) is that it has become in the last years a simple (and expensive) css/html editor.

    Dreamweaver was born as server behaviour tools with advanced extensions to allow to develop beyond the limits/skills of the web designer.

    Now it's an empty box, only DMXzone and PVII develop useful extensions but nothing that you can easily find ready to use on CMS as WordPress or marketplace ThemeForest/CodeCanyon.

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