[bastijn]

One of the reasons I run Solarized Dark theme as my default. Instead of requiring a themer tool to support all the tools I use, I have a theme that is always one of the first themes to be available for my tools. Google mytool+Solarized never let me down.

[mjswensen]

Solarized is fantastic. Perhaps I'm fickle, but I tend to like to change my theme every few months, and relatively few themes are as good as Solarized when it comes to supporting so many applications.

But I agree that the quick and simple install is a huge plus. Perhaps in the future theme authors could use a tool like themer to generate their themes rather than each author individually spending time figuring out how to apply their theme to a particular tool.

[bastijn]

The reason why I not fully believe in it is that there is no huge benefit to the parties for supporting a thing like themer. UIs are highly custom and if X companies make a product seperately you will have as many implementations of the theme keys and variables.

The comparison to mobile development comes to mind. There are cross platform options like cordova or xamarin but they are usually beaten by native implementations. Now, if the cost of doing things twice outweights by large the drop in quality it is still a viable option; hence their existance. However, with themes I’d say the cost of redoing is most likely not outweighting developping in the native application option.