Can I make IntelliJ IDEA look more like Eclipse?

Question

I\'ve been developing in Eclipse for a long while, but am taking a hard look at IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 because of its good Flex development tools and Maven flexmojos integratio

Answer 1

I agree, I can't stand nearly all of the Look and Feels, but I really like Nimbus; File -> Settings -> Appearance -> Look and Feel = Nimbus. Give that a go and see if it helps.

Answer 2

A little late to the party. Here is something I found and worked for me. Basically it creates eclipse like syntax highlighting on intelliJ. Works for Java code and XML which is what I was looking for.

https://github.com/shalabh-jaiswal/eclipse-syntax-colors-for-intellij-idea

Answer 3

download a color scheme for IntelliJ such as "Classic Eclipse" from http://www.ideacolorthemes.org/home/

It a jar file then you do File > Import Settings... and open the jar file and restart.

You should also go into Preferences > Keymap and change to the dropdown to be eclipse sortcuts so that you can get about easier.

Answer 4

Installation Eclipse color scheme:

1. Copy eclipse.xml to your IntelliJ IDEA preferences color directory. The directory varies, depending on which JetBrains IDE you are using. It is typically in:

   Mac OS X

   • ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea13/colors (IntelliJ IDEA 13 Ultimate Edition)
   • ~/Library/Preferences/IdeaIC13/colors (IntelliJ IDEA 13 Community Edition),
   • ~/Library/Preferences/WebIDE70/colors (PHPStorm 7.0).

   Windows

   • %USERPROFILE%/.IdeaIC13/config/colors (IntelliJ IDEA 13 Community Edition)

2. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

3. Go to Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fonts and select one of the new color themes.

Answer 5

1. Install Eclipse Color Theme Plugin: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-color-theme

2. Download "IntelliJ Dracula" theme: http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=14105 (select the Eclipse Color Theme (XML) file download).

3. In Eclipse, go to Windows > Preferences > General > Appearances > Color Theme > Import a theme. And select the xml file just downloaded.

Answer 6

Try adding

-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp
-Dswing.aatext=true
-Dsun.java2d.xrender=true

to your idea64.vmoptions

It improves antialiasing on my Ubuntu 14.04, Gnome Shell, Oracle JDK 7 slightly. It's not a big difference, still quite far from Eclipse, but it makes it better.

You can also try on, and lcd options instead of gasp. Some users report it makes a difference (for me, on and gasp seem to work the same, and lcd doesn't change anything).

I don't see any difference with Oracle JDK 8.

If you're using OpenJDK, you might need to patch it.

See http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233#

Update:

For Oracle JDK 8, removing -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp improves the rendering a bit for me on Ubuntu 14.10