Beautifying Gedit

So I do a lot of work in Gedit when I’m not using Vim. Lately I’ve been using it a considerable amount over Vim and wanted a better color scheme that was vibrant. I came across this article and was pleased to have found something I thought I would like. I have to say, I absolutely love it. All the colors are bright enough and different enough that when you want to look for one specific thing, nothing else stands about better. Included in the link are a lot of other things for making Gedit more TextMate like. From the sounds of it, TextMate seems to be an incredible editor, so I might have to check out some of those plugins soon.

You can download the darkmate theme for Gedit here:

If you’ve got any other theme or plugin suggestions for Vim or Gedit let me know. I need to build a perfect environment to develop in and I’m sure there are some life savers I haven’t come across yet.