I'm using Eclipse with the MoonRise theme installed on a Mac running OS X Yosemite, but I'm experiencing an issue which is that the background panel of Eclipse popups are dark grey and the colour of links is dark blue, making it difficult to see linked text against the background. As an example:
Is there a way I can change the colour of links to something brighter? I've tried Googling this problem and playing about with the Eclipse appearance preferences and so far nothing has helped. Is it the case that the link colour is hardcoded for Macs and I'm stuck with that?
The only way I saw to get around this was to go to Eclipse > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Content Assist. From there I changed the Content assist background and foreground colors to light grey.
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I've finaly decided to fix the twitches with Eclipse dark color theme. I am using Moonrise theme and I couldn't find any options to fix them via Preferences->General->Appearance->Colors and Fonts.
The first annoying twitch is with content assist window, where I can not see which entry is chosen. There is slightly different background for selected entry, but it's barely visible:
The second problem is with the menu entries color which is black when selected, making it really hard to read:
Have anyone tried to solve this problems and how?
Preferences > Appearance > Colors and Fonts
Basic > Content Assist Background Color
Basic > Content Assist Foreground Color
Basic > Counter Color
My Preferences Settings for Content Assist
another problem may turn up with the color of hyperlinks, like those in the menu or in the hover-popup on errors.
see: Hyperlinkcolor in a dark theme unreadable under win 10 (currently unsolved)
I have dark eclipse theme (Moonrise) and also dark theme for native widgets set in KDE. The problem is that dar blue hyperlink are not very legible so I would like them to be of different color. In the picture there is not that dark theme used, but with darker colors the link cannot be read.
Even thoughtI was setting the hyperlink color in every possible settings menu I could think of, I have not been able to set eclipse hyperlink color. It seems that Eclipse ignored the Appearance -> Colors and fonts settings.
It would make somehow sense if the native GUI settings would be to have dark blue hyperlink color. But I cannot see, that this would be the case in Application Appearance -> Colors section.
Is there a way to change the color of hyperlink? Why is it still dark blue? I am not interested in settings the tooltip background as is often suggested in this case- I have already set it to lighter color so the hyperlinks are readable.
Go to Window > Preferences and change the current theme restart eclipse. Refer picture below.
Install eclipse colour theme plugin then you will get lots of options to change the theme. See here.
Note that in different themes the colour of active and visited link will be different.
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After looking at your comment, you may get some clues from here
GNOME settings
KDE settings
Eclipse on Ubuntu
I am using eclipse color theme plugin to have a dark background. (http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/). The plugin works really great. One problem I have is that dark backgrounds look terrible with eclipse's comparison editor. For example, added lines have a dark blue highlight, which does not show up well at all on dark back grounds. Does anyone have a solution for this?
BullfrogBlues had the correct answer in his comment. You can change the colors for the comparison editor at Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Text Compare.
The outgoing change color works as an overlay:
I am using Eclipse 3.5 IDE on Fedora linux. Too much white or light gray color is hurtful to my eyes. I managed to change the background of editor and console window to black but nothing else so I am still seeing 30 to 40% space as not black. How do I change the background color of package explorer?
If not possible then how to hack into eclipse source code or config files somewhere to do that and also to change all UI panels color to black from the current light grey and text to some other color from black?
Much of the appearance of Eclipse is controlled by the GTK+ theme. You can edit the current theme or try different themes out. The "Nokoka-Midnight" theme, for instance, is almost entirely black. I like a program called gtk-chtheme to switch them.
Nokoka-Midnight
To change only editor without affecting the entire IDE you can try two approaches:
http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/
Go to Windows>Preferences>General>Editors>Text Editors and Java>Editor>Syntax Colouring and edit the colors there.
Eclipse is a default, and a background color is white,
but many developers uses the dark color (black) and thinks whether it is used the letter color with white or green.
I can't find tools which the color template can change an editor color of Eclipse by a blow very much.
Do you know featured WEB sites.?
If get possible to choose dark color among a beginning like MIFES, makes me Happy
I don't fully understand your question but for changing Eclipse's editor background color just go to menu: Window > Preferences, and in the dialog go to General > Text Editors. In that form just select Background color from the list Appearance color options and use the color picker in the right to change it. For other formatting options go to General > Colors and Fonts in the same dialog.
NOTE: All these formatting changes are saved in your workspace if you create a new one it'll start with the default settings
As a very late follow-up (just found this via search), there is now Eclipse Color Theme, a plugin you can grab from the marketplace. It enables you to use color themes from various sites and load them directly.
They even got a few relatively close Netbeans-lookalikes (that's why I was looking for one).
If you mean "themes" as Netbeans has "Dark pastels" theme - then Eclipse currently doesn't have this feature.
In the newer version of eclipse, we have an option Switch to Theme...
This should resolve the issue.