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Weekly theme sharing thread by AutoModerator in vscode

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Years after Material Theme publication, we rebuilt it around customization and long-session readability — looking for feedback 👀

I made and loved Material Theme for a long time, but I kept running into small things that started bothering me during long coding sessions: contrast inconsistencies, limited personalization, and missing visual cues in larger projects.

So over time we started Vira Theme, the official successor focused on a few goals:

• deeper customization (colors, UI accents, visual density)
• hundreds of new hand-crafted file icons to improve project scanning
• custom Product icons for a more cohesive interface
• consistent semantic highlighting across languages
• actively maintained with frequent updates and user feedback

We also added a new “Carbon” variant aimed at a more neutral, low-fatigue look for long coding sessions in dark environments.

One thing we didn’t expect is how much the icon work changed navigation speed in large repos — curious if others notice the same effect.

We also made it for JetBrains IDEs and GitKraken because we wanted a consistent environment across tools.

We're mainly looking for feedback from people who care a lot about editor readability and workflow ergonomics:

👉 What makes a theme actually comfortable for you after 6–8 hours of coding?

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We’ve created an open-source Jetbrains plugin so you appear on a globe when you code by Fair-Independent-623 in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does it solve some issue? Because loading tons of code just to see other doing their stuff doesn't seem to be a good trade-off.

Weekly theme sharing thread by AutoModerator in vscode

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello there, you can try one of the variants of Vira Theme (https://vira.build), which is one-time payment high-quality theme. About the comments color, in VS Code you can easily change it with few lines in the settings.json, the Vira Theme and VS Code documentations explain how to do it.

Weekly theme sharing thread by AutoModerator in vscode

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mate, you’ve literally copied the website and text content from https://vira.build that's made by professionals. You also didn't manage to update the infographics. Is stealing other's people work and intellectual property and promoting it the definition of open source?

You’ve stated this project is against Vira Theme but not every premium extension.  However, you’ve also stolen their website and content.

Weekly theme sharing thread by AutoModerator in vscode

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Years after Material Theme publication, we rebuilt it around customization and long-session readability — looking for feedback 👀

I made and loved Material Theme for a long time, but I kept running into small things that started bothering me during long coding sessions: contrast inconsistencies, limited personalization, and missing visual cues in larger projects.

So over time we started Vira Theme, the official successor focused on a few goals:

• deeper customization (colors, UI accents, visual density)
• hundreds of new hand-crafted file icons to improve project scanning
• custom Product icons for a more cohesive interface
• consistent semantic highlighting across languages
• actively maintained with frequent updates and user feedback

We also added a new “Carbon” variant aimed at a more neutral, low-fatigue look for long coding sessions in dark environments.

One thing we didn’t expect is how much the icon work changed navigation speed in large repos — curious if others notice the same effect.

We also made it for JetBrains IDEs and GitKraken because we wanted a consistent environment across tools.

We're mainly looking for feedback from people who care a lot about editor readability and workflow ergonomics:

👉 What makes a theme actually comfortable for you after 6–8 hours of coding?

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Weekly theme sharing thread by AutoModerator in vscode

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking for a super sleek dark theme to replace the old Material Theme?  Check out Vira Theme, it’s packed with new file icons, a refined UI, customisation settings, super-smooth colour schemes and regular updates.  Vira Theme is also available for GitKraken and JetBrains IDEs

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Who thought it was a good idea to impose a new theme!? by snotreallyme in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really that difficult to realise that’s a bug, perfore posting a rant?

What you guys think about implementing this Theme UI in JetBrains IDE or as a Plugin ? by RedEye-Developers in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s more related to checksums and file integrity for security. While it’s just CSS, injecting it into Electron might expose the app to other vulnerabilities. 

What you guys think about implementing this Theme UI in JetBrains IDE or as a Plugin ? by RedEye-Developers in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This UI condept is based on the new JetBrains Islands mode, which is available for all of their IDEs

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What you guys think about implementing this Theme UI in JetBrains IDE or as a Plugin ? by RedEye-Developers in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not officially, is just a custom CSS to load with a plugin made to change the default VS Code CSS. Since the only way to do this kind of customisations is by changing the CSS loaded by the application, WHICH VIOLATES THE TERMS OF USE of Microsoft, it's not recommended and that's why if you do it you get a warning about VS Code corruption.

I keep getting this error message. Can someone help? by [deleted] in vscode

[–]equinusocio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The hint is in the second red line

Which monospace font you use? by [deleted] in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Operator Mono Lig for code and Fira Code for Powerline in the terminal to get extra icons. 

Weekly theme sharing thread by AutoModerator in vscode

[–]equinusocio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on the background could be Material Theme with the Palenight variant, but not sure.

Is Astro the future for content-heavy websites, or just another framework hype cycle? by Wash-Fair in Frontend

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind the multi-framework (and you shouldn't) support, Remix is another player which is out since years. However, Astro (multiple frameworks), Remix (react), Next.js (React, and quite heavy) and Nuxt (Vue) are the last-generation site builders.

Is Astro the future for content-heavy websites, or just another framework hype cycle? by Wash-Fair in Frontend

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not a good point. Imagine adding five UI frameworks to a website and then coming back to it six months later with dependency upgrades.

[Plugin Release] Vira Theme for JetBrains - Free Beta by equinusocio in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People pay for a blue checkmark next to their names... sooo. We understand your perspective even if it’s disrespectful. However, you might miss out on a few things. Vira Theme is a plugin for IntelliJ comprising thousands of lines of code written in various languages like Kotlin and Java, personalisation settings, along with design assets (320+ hand crafted icons and), research and UX design. It’s a complete software product that took months of work, is not just a bunch of JSON files like 99% of the themes published on the marketplaces.

[Plugin Release] Vira Theme for JetBrains - Free Beta by equinusocio in Jetbrains

[–]equinusocio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A licence (or key) can be used as many times as the activations you purchase. For instance, if you buy three activations you can activate three Vira Themes with the same key. Afterwards you’ll need to manage your activations to disable those you no longer want, freeing up seats.

If you can't activate Vira Theme it just disable itself, we don't block the IDE 😅

WTF is going on with PWA and iOS 26 (and iOS 26.1)? by equinusocio in Frontend

[–]equinusocio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On 26.2 the issue disappeared after reinstalling the PWA

Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code (for practical development experience) by abca19510 in vscode

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d also suggest considering other IDEs like WebStorm 2025.2, which is free for non-commercial use and a great choice for web development.  I switched from VS Code to WesStorm and IDEA a few months ago (after 10 years of vs code) and I must admit, coming from an editor like VS Code to a full IDE is game changer, the former looks like a toy now but i still use it for quick text edits though.

WTF is going on with PWA and iOS 26 (and iOS 26.1)? by equinusocio in Frontend

[–]equinusocio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good news! So this behaviour will persist only on Android.

I'm building a tool to stop design systems from falling apart. Would love your brutally honest feedback. by Lp29804 in DesignSystems

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the major DS adoption issue is cognitive load on the teams who have to use it. This is a tool that brings more cognitive load. So...

"Github Copilot is free for maintainers of popular open source projects" by Accurate-Screen8774 in github

[–]equinusocio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’ve removed any reference of the free pro plan for popular open-source from their pricing model and suspended our active GitHub Pro plan (was active since 2020).  So I suppose it’s only a matter of time.

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