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facelessuser
Move to official org?
Hey @facelessuser 👋
I'm the creator of Dracula color scheme. I was searching for themes created by the community and I found yours. Good job by the way!
I was wondering if you are interested in transferring this repository to the official organization (https://github.com/dracula). You'll continue maintaining this project, the only difference is that we can make it more visible and include it on the site (https://draculatheme.com).
What do you think?
@zenorocha
One of the main reasons I am hesitant is that the Sublime Text and Sublime Merge app share the color scheme, insomuch as Merge will actually source the color scheme from Sublime Text if it is installed.
The default, "official" Dracula Sublime Text color scheme uses the old tmTheme format which is incompatible with Merge and doesn't provide the Merge specific definitions that are required.
Because of this, the Merge theme I maintain also requires my own variant of a Sublime Text color scheme in the new sublime-color-scheme format. The merge theme is kind of an adaptive theme that sources the pallet from the Dracula color scheme.
I could maybe package the color scheme in the Merge theme but the Merge diff syntax highlighting may differ from the Sublime Text syntax highlighting which may surprise the user. So currently, I encourage the user to deviate from the official and use my maintained Sublime Text syntax file instead when using the Merge theme.
For this reason, I've kind of kept this separate from the "official" distributions instead of persuing this as an official implementation.
@facelessuser Love the theme and color-scheme for Sublime Merge (and Sublime Text). I would love to see this get more users and I think moving it to the Dracula org will definitely help spotlight your wonderful work.
Right now, my Sublime Color Scheme would conflict with the current "official" one over at Dracula org. I'd have to bundle it in the Merge theme, which I could do...
I'd also love to do the Pro variants as well, I've figured out pretty close what the colors should be, though there may be some slightly off colors, I'm also not sure if that is "allowed". I wish I knew as I'd love to release those as well.
I'm not overly concerned with how many people are using it, but I'm not against lots of people getting access to it as well 🙂.
I've been kind of sitting on the fence about this. Regardless, I plan on continuing to support it regardless.
@facelessuser Maybe it could be an idea to add your Sublime Color Scheme as a Git Submodule?
As for the Pro themes, I agree with your concerns, in fact, I have had many of the same and that's stopped me from making any...and I've even thought about emailing @zenorocha about it. (@zenorocha I think it would be really nice if the Pro colors were specified somewhere (maybe like the Gumroad download) for us Pro users).
Regardless, @facelessuser I think it's very admirable that you put the effort in to try to support the Pro variants. I think it's the first custom Dracula Pro theme I've seen. Hats off to you, mate.
I am considering just releasing my interpreted Pro variants. I've been considering this for a while.
All of the main colors are available on the official Dracula Pro site, they aren't secret, they can be extracted using nothing more than a color picker or just looking at the hex codes in the HTML. There are some colors (line highlights, and variant-specific comments) that are not specifically available but can kind of be guessed/approximated to a point that no one would care that they are not exact. This is basically what I did in the screenshots for the Pro variants of this theme as I have not purchased the official Pro yet, as I do not need $80 worth of themes, just a simple $10 tier to show thanks would be sufficient for me.
I'm pretty sure if I did release my pro variants, this project wouldn't fit on the official org. No other themes on the official org do this (that I'm aware of). But, as far as I know, there is nothing illegal about using the same or very similar colors. I would not be illegally distributing any themes by the author, only offering my own work using the same/similar color palette. Plenty of people do this for Monokai Pro (partly because they only offer Sublime Text and VSCode themes). This is because you are purchasing the theme, you are not purchasing permission to use the color palette.
I've basically already had one person just fork and add their self deduced themes here: https://github.com/facelessuser/sublime-dracula-scheme/pull/1
I've held off as long as I have simply to be courteous to the Dracula author, but there should be nothing illegal about using the color themselves.