Secara default tampilan Gedit kurang nyaman dimata, berikut ini adalah cara untuk menambah style sehingga Gedit lebih nyaman digunakan dan lebih enak dilihat.
Buatlah sebuah file baru yang bernama grobak.xml di direktori /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/ dengan perintah berikut:
sudo vim /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/grobak.xml
Kemudian isi dengan kode XML di bawah ini:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
This file is part of GtkSourceView
Copyright (C) 2014 Bonny Useful <bonny@grobak.net>
GtkSourceView is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
GtkSourceView is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-->
<style-scheme id="grobak" _name="Grobak" version="1.0">
<author>Bonny Useful</author>
<_description>Grobak.Net color scheme</_description>
<!-- The scheme tries to look like the default GVim scheme,
since it is also what the hardwired GtkSourceView 1 color
scheme did -->
<!-- Palette -->
<color name="black" value="#000000"/>
<color name="g_black" value="#050C00"/>
<color name="gr_black" value="#1d3f00"/>
<color name="white" value="#FFFFFF"/>
<color name="blue" value="#0000FF"/>
<color name="magenta" value="#FF00FF"/>
<color name="green" value="#74e600"/>
<color name="violet" value="#6A5ACD"/>
<color name="orange" value="#ff9d00"/>
<color name="cyan" value="#008A8C"/>
<color name="gray" value="#BEBEBE"/>
<color name="light_gray" value="#e6e6e6"/>
<color name="dark_gray" value="#262626"/>
<color name="red" value="#FF0000"/>
<color name="yellow" value="#FFFF00"/>
<color name="purple" value="#A020F0"/>
<!-- Global Settings -->
<style name="text" foreground="light_gray" background="g_black"/>
<style name="selection" foreground="white" background="dark_gray"/>
<style name="current-line" background="gray"/>
<style name="draw-spaces" foreground="#babdb6"/>
<style name="line-numbers" foreground="dark_gray" background="black"/>
<!-- Bracket Matching -->
<style name="bracket-match" foreground="white" background="gray" bold="true"/>
<style name="bracket-mismatch" foreground="white" background="red" bold="true"/>
<!-- Right Margin -->
<style name="right-margin" foreground="#000000" background="#000000"/>
<!-- Search Matching -->
<style name="search-match" background="yellow"/>
<!-- Comments -->
<style name="def:comment" foreground="blue"/>
<style name="def:shebang" foreground="blue" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:doc-comment-element" italic="true"/>
<!-- Constants -->
<style name="def:constant" foreground="green"/>
<style name="def:special-char" foreground="violet"/>
<!-- Identifiers -->
<style name="def:identifier" foreground="cyan"/>
<!-- Statements -->
<style name="def:statement" foreground="orange" bold="true"/>
<!-- Types -->
<style name="def:type" foreground="magenta" bold="true"/>
<!-- Others -->
<style name="def:preprocessor" foreground="purple"/>
<style name="def:error" background="red" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:warning" background="yellow"/>
<style name="def:note" foreground="blue" background="yellow" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:underlined" italic="true" underline="true"/>
<!-- Language specific styles -->
<style name="diff:added-line" foreground="#008B8B"/>
<style name="diff:removed-line" foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
<style name="diff:changed-line" use-style="def:preprocessor"/>
<style name="diff:special-case" use-style="def:constant"/>
<style name="diff:location" use-style="def:statement"/>
<style name="diff:diff-file" use-style="def:type"/>
<style name="xml:tags" foreground="cyan"/>
<style name="xml:attribute-name" foreground="violet"/>
<style name="xml:namespace" foreground="magenta" bold="true"/>
<style name="js:object" foreground="#2E8B57" bold="true"/>
<style name="js:constructors" foreground="#008B8B"/>
<style name="latex:display-math" foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
<style name="latex:command" foreground="#2E8B57" bold="true"/>
<style name="latex:include" use-style="def:preprocessor"/>
<style name="sh:variable" foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
<!-- legacy styles for old lang files -->
<style name="Others" foreground="#2E8B57" bold="true"/>
<style name="Others 2" foreground="#008B8B"/>
<style name="Others 3" foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
</style-scheme>
Kemudian jalankan Gedit dan pilih menu Edit > Preferences > Font & Colors > Pilih Color Scheme Grobak.