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Eclipse Theme & Syntax Color Settings

This is an initial Eclipse workspace configuration and plugin that apply a dark style UI theme and editor syntax coloring. A very slightly modified copy of the Dark Juno theme plugin by Roger Dudler is used. Only a couple of colors have been changed.

Syntax color settings are present for Java, Clojure, Javascript, CSS, HTML and XML, using the following plugins for languages besides Java:

  • Counterclockwise (Clojure)
  • Eclipse Web Developer Tools (HTML, CSS, XHTML)
  • JavaScript Development Tools

If some of these languages aren't going to be used, the plugins need not be installed. The color settings will just be ignored for those plugins.

Usage

This has only been tested with fresh Eclipse Juno installations. Attempts to use with an existing installation are done at your own risk!

Extract Eclipse, as per a normal installation of Eclipse. Before running it for the first time, do the following:

  • Copy the contents of the eclipse_root/dropins folder to the dropins folder located in the root of your Eclipse installation.
  • Copy the your_workspace/.metadata folder to the folder you will be using as your workspace in this Eclipse installation.
  • Run Eclipse, choosing the same workspace folder that we set up with the existing .metadata in the previous step.

If this was completed successfully, you should immediately notice Eclipse is using the Dark Juno theme.

  • Now install the plugins listed above (if needed). The existing snytax color settings we copied over should be picked up by them.

Known Issues

  • The Dark Juno theme is unfortunately not perfect due to limitations in the CSS styling support in Eclipse. Specifically, certain SWT controls like scrollbars and table/grid headers cannot be styled and will render as per the OS's default styling.
  • Use of a CTabItem:hover CSS selector doesn't work as one would expect, and as a result, hovering over tabs makes them appear with a default white/gray background.
  • There is a somewhat annoying 2px gray/white border line at the top of some tabs / editing windows. This can be styled, but there doesn't appear to be a unique CSS class/id for it, making it difficult to style without affecting something else in the process.
  • The text on the Perspective switching toolbar is unfortunately too dark. I can't seem to style this any better ???
  • Some text on the bottom status line (e.g. the column/line indicator) doesn't seem to stick to the color style applied to it. There might be some way to get around this. ??
  • Minimized tabs/windows appear in an ugly off-color box.
  • Probably a ton of stuff I don't use at all in Eclipse isn't styled consistently. Oh well.