The background color of the Eclipse package explorer follows the windows theme. I want to change the color without changing the theme of Windows. Possible?

Question

Maybe a way to change colors locally (depending on the application)?

The background color of the eclipse is white, the same white as the active background color of the windows. If I change the color of the theme, the eclipse changes to a color.

I want to change the color of this software without changing the whole theme (because then every program gets strange colors). Is it possible? I thought there might be a way to apply different Windows themes to different programs or something like that.

I am using Windows XP, a classic theme for Windows.

Answer 1

Knowing how the workbench works, I am sure that your request is not possible on the Eclipse side. You can do this for editors, because they are StyledText widgets, and you are given some settings to customize them. Other views are various widgets, some are trees, some are text, some of them are made up of different other widgets. They are all created using the default constructor, which simply uses the Windows theme.

Answer 2

Install the "Eclipse 4 Chrome Theme" from http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-chrome-theme

You can then customize many of the Eclipse UI widgets. But not what you want, at least not out of the box. To do this, you must go to the CSS tab (in the Eclipse 4 Chrome Theme theme) and paste this:

Tree, List, Table { background-color: #202020; color: #d0d0d0; } 

You can change almost everything, the problem is what happens, and that some things are bitmaps that you cannot change (therefore, if the bitmap is dark and you set a dark background, you will “lose” the bitmap )

This list of widgets may help, http://download.eclipse.org/rt/rap/doc/1.5/help/html/reference/theming/index.html , but they give you general information about widget names, not Eclipse information (with identifiers and all), so be careful :-)

== A very late addition ==

Everything you need in one place, including links to a custom dark theme: http://mihai-nita.net/2013/09/19/dark-eclipse/

Mac Screen Shot since September 2013 (be sure to restart Eclipse after changing the file):

Answer 3

Just find the "Theme" in the Eclipse market. Install Moonrise. (Must be the first option). Then go to the general, look, click on look, change the theme to moonrise. Then you go.

Answer 4

I do not know how to change each Eclipse window to your color scheme, but I can get at least before changing some editing windows ...

Open "Window → Preferences", then in the "General Editors", "Text Editors" section you will find a section that allows you to set "Appearance Color Options", the background color is one of these options.

PS: I am using Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)

Answer 5

Unfortunately, this is not possible (which is crazy).
However, Aptana Studio (which is a derivative of Eclipse) allows you to create a theme for the entire development environment.

Answer 6

I did some research and found that in reality you can change all the colors, but it’s better to complicate. There are two methods that I have found so far.

first, since eclipse uses OS themes, you can change the background settings of the OS, for example, the background of a folder, etc., or just change the whole theme if you use windows, but the disadvantage is that all windows will be the same color, linux and mac os it is also possible, but in a different way, I read it somewhere, but I can’t remember where :)

the second, creating a specific theme for eclipse, for example http://rogerdudler.imtqy.com/eclipse-ui-themes/ or any other theme such as google chrome, etc.

Answer 7

Install the theme here according to the instructions on github: https://github.com/guari/eclipse-ui-theme

If you don't like the color theme of the editor, there are a bunch of them here http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/

The combination of both just works like a charm for me!