Dark color scheme for Eclipse [closed]

Answer 1

Here's a guy that posted his Eclipse preferences for changing the colors like a theme:

http://blog.codefront.net/2006/09/28/vibrant-ink-textmate-theme-for-eclipse/

And here's more about how to set the colors in the Ganymede Eclipse version (v. 3.4, mid 2008):

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/concepts/accessibility/fontsandcolors.htm

Answer 2

I've created my own dark color scheme (based on Oblivion from gedit), which I think is very nice to work with.

Preview & details at: http://www.rogerdudler.com/?p=362

We're happy to announce the beta of eclipsecolorthemes.org, a new website to download, create and maintain Eclipse color themes / schemes. The theme editor allows you to copy an existing theme and edit the colors with a live preview of your changes on specific editors. The downloadable themes support a lot of editors (PHP, Java, SQL, Ant, text, HTML, CSS, and more to follow)

There's a growing list of themes already available on the site:

• Zenburn
• Oblivion
• Inkpot
• Vibrant Ink

You can read more about the launch here.

Answer 3

If you use Aptana then you can download a dark color theme! I have been looking for one recently and found the Aptana one. Thought others might be interested!

Check out: http://www.nightlion.net/themes/2009/aptana-dark-color-theme/

Answer 4

Easiest way: change the Windows Display Properties main window background color. I went to Appearance tab, changed to Silver scheme, clicked Advanced, clicked on "Active Window" and changed Color 1 to a light gray. All Eclipse views softened.

Since Luna (4.4) there seems to be a full Dark them in

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Theme -> Dark

Answer 5

This is the best place for Eclipse color themes:

http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/

Answer 6

I have finally found exactly what I have been looking for, i.e. a dark theme for PyDev (although I still feel like Eclipse is missing out on this).