As already mentioned, Kate Part much better chooses colors from the default KDE color palette configured in System Settings in upcoming KDE SC 4.9. As teaser, here are some examples – hope you like it.
Default “Oxygen” Color Schema
Default “Obsidian Coast” Color Schema 
Dark “Vim” Color Schema
Note: The yellow search background comes from the “Highlight Selection” plugin, which is still a hard-coded yellow. Kate Part’s “Search & Replace”chooses more fitting highlight colors for matching and replaced text.
I built my own color scheme based on SublimeText’s Twilight color scheme, but since it only contains PHP/JS/CSS/HTML, I don’t feel confident enough to share it 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/Z4Wyu.png
Please share Twilight color schema
https://www.box.com/s/5ba7b71e7a3e23a411e5
You’ll have to append it manually though, the color scheme’s name is Mongolato
I very much like this. I am tired of changing my kate colors each time I change the default KDE color palette. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much!!!
That color scheme is very nice indeed. 🙂
Kate really needs better default color schemes. The white oxygen scheme is blinding to my eyes.
@Dzikri
Yes, Definitely
Great work! lovely!
Would it be possible to implement the solarized schemes? Both versions (light/dark) are a joy to work with!
> http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Why not?
Heh, nice to have some good options to choose from 🙂
These are not predefined options. The first two are given if you choose the KDE Color scheme accordingly. And the 3rd one was manually make by myself. But it’s not officially shipped with KDE 4.9. Sorry, if I did not make that clear 🙂
I’ve been waiting for just this capability for a long, long time. This makes me very happy!
When adding a new color scheme with “New…”, all colors are taken from KDE’s current color scheme. However, if you now switch KDE’s color scheme, the colors in the “Colors” tab adapt, but the colors of the text styles in “Normal Text Styles” and “Highlighting Text Styles” will not automatically adapt. This requires another major change in the code.
Still, by creating a new one, you get a nice KDE-integrated scheme. So at least we have a workaround…
any chance of getting the oblivion-coast theme for kate 4.8?
hi, I just installed the color schemes on my Opensuse12.1 with Kate, but the Kate still shows no color at all.
Create a new color schema. And then for all colors in the first tab, the system colors are used.
Is Dark Vim nothing but a chimera ?
I need it right now and it doesn’t seem to exist anywhere :/ !
As I said, predefined color schemas are not included. You have to create a new one and modify the colors. But that’s a matter of a few minutes. Not optimal, but you should get what you want. 😉
Ok, there you go: http://pastebin.com/xtHDhjQ6
Download this file and import it in Kate. Then you should have a “Vim (dark)” color schema. Haven’t tested it, but should do the trick 🙂