Installation Issue

[k0decraft]

Greetings,

I have been trying to install the Nord theme for Brackets on PC. When selecting the theme Nord in the Extension Manager after installation, I get a light theme. Not the cool blue theme I want.

I have the Nord theme installed on VScode and it's working as intended there. Brackets is where I have the issue.

I have tried both installing from the Extension Manager > Themes and using the zip file.

[arcticicestudio]

Which OS and version of Brackets are you running?
I was able to install the theme successfully using Brackets version 1.8 and 1.9 on Arch Linux, but there should be no differences between different OS.

[Southeaven]

I have the same issue. After installing the theme for Brackets and selecting it I got a light theme.

My OS is Windows 7 SP1. The Brackets' version is Release 1.10 build 1.10.0-17483 (release 024bee940).

[arcticicestudio]

I was able to reproduce this using a VirtualBox Windows 7 image and it seems to be a OS specific problem regarding the LESS CSS file import statements since it works fine on Linux. There must be a problem with the path resolution, maybe the good old known slash vs. backslash (/ vs. \) problem.

The console logs:

GET file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Brackets/www/c:/Users/virtu-win7/AppData/Roaming/Brackets/extensions/user/nord-brackets/styles/variables.less
GET file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Brackets/www/c:/Users/virtu-win7/AppData/Roaming/Brackets/extensions/user/nord-brackets/styles/editor.less
GET file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Brackets/www/c:/Users/virtu-win7/AppData/Roaming/Brackets/extensions/user/nord-brackets/styles/syntax.less
GET file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Brackets/www/c:/Users/virtu-win7/AppData/Roaming/Brackets/extensions/user/nord-brackets/styles/extensions.less
GET file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Brackets/www/c:/Users/virtu-win7/AppData/Roaming/Brackets/extensions/user/nord-brackets/styles/ui.less

@k0decraft @Southeaven Can you create a issue in adobe/brackets for it? You can link back to this issue to use the console log as reference.

[FiGOBLAC]

Any updates on this issue?

[arcticicestudio]

@FiGOBLAC It works fine on my main machine (Arch Linux). It might be a unresolved upstream problem so the the author of this issue should open a new issue in the adobe/brackets repository and mention me so I can keep track of it.

[k0decraft]

Sorry guys for the late response.

My OS is Win10( latest version ). I am also on the latest release of Brackets( v1.11 ).

[arcticicestudio]

I've reported adobe/brackets/issues/13745 since it seems to be a problem of Brackets. The theme works fine on my system (Arch Linux) using Brackets version 1.10 and 1.11. The errors are only thrown on Windows 7- and 10.

[ZeyadAmr]

@arcticicestudio The same issue still exists. Just the standard light theme whenever I apply it.

[arcticicestudio]

It looks like this is a bug of Brackets, see adobe/brackets#13745 (comment), so I'm currently blocked since this is a upstream/external problem.

[k0decraft]

Thanks for the update.

[sheeepdev]

This issue is still present right now. Doesn't work for me on win10 20h2

[arcticicestudio]

@sheeepdev that is understandable, because adobe/brackets/issues/13745 is still open and hasn't been fixed in Brackets source code. This is not a bug in this theme but a problem about how Brackets handles the paths when loading imported .less files on Windows.

Changing this theme by merging all files into one file to not use the import statement at all is not an option since this is an official feature of LESSCSS.

Like described in adobe/brackets/issues/13745 a PR to fix this problem is always welcome so maybe you can try to solve it. Unfortunately my free time I have to work on my OSS projects is now already too limited so digging into Brackets source code to fix the problem is no option. Also Brackets might be discontinued/feature-freezed in the future because there are already other fantastic OSS applications like VS Code that provide by far way more features and is driven by a really large ecosystem and community. This means that this theme might also be feature-freezed so the effort is currently not worth it.

[sheeepdev]

@arcticicestudio you're right, thanks.