At least on Windows 7, it looks like the title bar color may have been changed to blue. However, the title bar icons were designed only to be used on a light gray bar rather than using alpha transparency for antialiasing. Note the white highlights around the edge of the green circle "run" icon.
The icons look horrendous, like we're in 1995. Is this how it appears on other Windows 7 user's installations as well? I noticed there's theming, and the closest I can find to something that works is the olive theme. I can't find a toolbar color in the Appearance/colors and fonts preferences though. Is there any way to revert the title bar back to the old color or replace the icons with correctly designed ones?
In the meantime, I filed an Eclipse bug for this.
Either select the classic theme under Appearance (and restart!) to go back to the 3.x look or install the Eclipse 4 Chrome theme, which can be tuned to your personal preferences in detail.
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I am using Eclipse on Ubuntu. I'm theming with the DevStyle plugin, using Dark Custom. The theme works really well, but there is just this big white bar on the top of the screen under the menu bar, that appears when I tile the editor top/ bottom or left/right.
If have tried to theme the window in General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts and the editor tab, but there seems to be no option.
The maximize and minimize buttons from the side panel also have this annoying white background.
The bars look really ugly and out of place, and make me angry every time I look at them :-) .
Anyone has an idea of how to theme the background? Is it even possible?
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It seems that there has been an improvement, probably due to updates. The white bar changed into two white squares in the corners.
This only happens with DevStyle.
I am on a Dell Laptop and using Ubuntu Budgie 19.04. I don't use any accessibility setting.
In Eclipse Mars 4.5.2 for Java on Windows 10, there are several items I can't figure out how to change the color of, and web searches are difficult since I don't know the names of the items, and the few I do know have changed over time, are for other windows versions, or older Eclipse versions. Many others address the issue only for Unix hosts. I would appreciate pointers to where to change these colors for Eclipse Mars 4.5.2 on Windows 10:
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In the first capture: the preferences window font color, black in the screen capture. Also the blue "links" to other information.
In the second capture: the blue link color in the "fixes" popup window. Many pages claim this is related to the system link colors, but changing the link & visited link colors in Internet Options had no effect. I cannot find this blue color in any of the color settings I could find in Eclipse itself. I restarted after changing it in windows, with no effect.
In the third capture, the suggested/help text within input box, which is so dark it cannot be read.
In the fourth capture, the color of the virtual memory bar and text.
In the fifth capture, the background and foreground colors of the breadcrumbs.
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10, one of the things that's been annoying me is the background color of the left margin of the Eclipse Java editor window. It's pretty much white, which makes it difficult to see where the actual left edge of the editor window ends and the margin begins. Screenshot:
I've looked through all the Eclipse color settings and also all the "Gnome Color Chooser" settings and I don't see where I would change this. Any ideas?
Thanks!
You will want to go to Windows->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors and find the section called Appearance color options. You will want to change the Selection background color. This will also change the background of the main document, but this will make where one section begins and ends well defined. You can experiment with these settings and the settings under Java->Editor until you get the color scheme you want.
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.