

The problem is that I'm only familiar with some of the languages that SciTE recognizes (for example - I wouldn't know Baan if it bit me on the butt). I'm willing to do all the legwork for all the properties files. I'm happy to put the modified files out there for all to use (if you want them). My first stop is completing Perl, but AutoIt is my next stop. Now I'm working my way through source-code cleaning up the result. At this point, it is possible on my computer to switch to either the Solarized light or dark theme with one line of text in my user options file. The result is dark, but the individual source files I look at still need more help (Perl was particularly bad). Next I generated a color theme where all the colors are reversed for the Solarized dark theme.

Next I parsed that and I used the formula for reducing the color palette to fewer colors as a baseline for generating the Solarized light theme - which turned out surprisingly less awful than I would have guessed. Then I assigned indexes to all the distinct colors, and wrote the colors themselves out to a separate properties file. The mechanism is simple enough: I wrote a small Perl program which parsed all the properties files and extracted all the distinct color values. To resolve this, I'm currently working on creating a set of lang.properties files that use the Solarized themes (both light and dark). I currently have a dark desktop in Mint where xed, the terminal emulator, vim, and etcetera do an acceptable job of showing the dark theme.

No wish to necro-post, but I found this post -> A dark theme for SciTE but it seems as if things were ended at a single change for AutoIt where I was hoping for a comprehensive dark theme. I went looking around for dark themes for SciTE and didn't have much luck.
