Rstudio Appearance in Positron

[seewe]

I saw that Positron Actually use most of the color theme in VScode market place. Which is already great !
Please is it easy and possible to add default theme colors in Rstudio in Positron ? It will make developper familiar with the new interface ! Thank !

[juliasilge]

We don't plan to exactly reproduce the themes from RStudio, given what a plethora of theme extensions are out there available for VS Code / Positron. If you are interested in something that looks very much like RStudio, you may want to look for themes like this one that have been built to emulate RStudio!

[sebdalgarno]

The biggest issues I have in terms of getting used to the appearance of Positron (from RStudio) are lack of clear border separation between panels and lack of color differentiation in console text. Despite all the obvious improvements that Positron offers, it is really difficult for my brain to work around these and I end up moving back to RStudio.

[justinasR-19]

I have same issue. Please have a read this post and if you find it useful vote it up.

#5853

[juliasilge]

One of the great things about building on the VS Code infrastructure is that you can customize a lot of this. If you are someone who likes more dramatic border separation between panels, you can do that via user-level theming. Look for items called "border" on that page, and you might try something like this in your settings.json:

    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "panel.border": "#333",
        "statusBar.border": "#333",
        "activityBar.border": "#333",
        "sideBar.border": "#333"      
    }

[justinasR-19]

Thank you for this. I found some online builders that I could have a go with to recreate COBALT theme from Rstudio. As per my initial post about the layout itself and spacing, Is it possible to adjust the spacing with this json file? If not, do you have any internal discussions about window adjustments?

[sebdalgarno]

thanks @juliasilge I will give that a try!

[juliasilge]

@justinasR-19 I believe that VS Code / Positron themes are more about color and not so much about spacing; AFAIK there aren't settings exposed for the aspects of the UI you outlined in #5853 (comment). Thank you for your post outlining what you are missing coming from RStudio!

[gvelasq]

For those who are fans of RStudio's implementation of Tomorrow Night Bright, I have drafted a port of RStudio's Tomorrow Night Bright in the Positron editor with workbench decorations ported from GitHub Dark Default. I plan to release this extension on the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX.

Repository: https://github.com/gvelasq/tomorrow-night-bright-r-classic

Related discussion: #3686 (reply in thread)

[seewe]

Hi @gvelasq ! great what you did here ! Please can you replicate the same project for R classic Cobalt theme ? I'm actualy use the Twin Blue one ! But if it's easy for you to replicate the R classic Cobalt theme, this will be great for me and some folks i know around me ! Thank !