Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle

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Solution Description

Darkest Dark theme from DevStyle - a free plugin providing an enhanced set of experiences for Eclipse. Included:

  • Darkest Dark theme - #1 in the Marketplace:
    True dark theme with flat replacement icons
    A great experience over Windows, Mac and Linux
     
  • Included with DevStyle:
    New light and dark color themes
    All new startup experience for Eclipse
    Inline search for text editors

​Entirely free to use!  Get DevStyle today.

Categories: IDE, UI

Tags: dark, theme, Darkest Dark, Genuitec

Additional Details

Eclipse Versions: 2024-03 (4.31), 2023-12 (4.30), 2023-09 (4.29), 2023-06 (4.28), 2023-03 (4.27), 2022-12 (4.26), 2022-09 (4.25), 2022-06 (4.24), 2022-03 (4.23), 2021-12 (4.22), 2021-09 (4.21), 2021-06 (4.20), 2021-03 (4.19), 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Organization Name: CodeTogether Inc.

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - 12:51

License: Commercial - Free

Date Updated: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 16:50

Submitted by: Tim Webb

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Submitted by Tony Weddle on Mon, 02/05/2018 - 03:20

Jake,

Thanks for that. It may be that the proprietary plug-in is conflicting with something. We'd like to track this down but our standard support channels are a better place to do that. If possible, can you post to our DevStyle support forum at https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/devstyle/theme-problems/ or send an email to our ticket system (support at genuitec.com)? If you can clear the error log, then replicate the problem, please attach the eclipse error log to the forum post or your email (note that the error log can be exported to a text file from the error log view).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Submitted by Kyle Lin on Thu, 01/04/2018 - 05:56

Hi, it's such an amazing plugin that I can't ignore it. But I kept getting this error while trying to install it over and over again..

No repository found at downloads.genuitec.com/downloads/products/myeclipse/installers/me2017stable2.0

 

 

Submitted by Alan DW on Thu, 12/28/2017 - 14:00

So first of all, this is a very nice theme. There are however some elements that seem to have gone unnoticed (i.e. they are still bright). I'm using Eclipse Oxygen.2 64bit on Windows 10.

  1. The border of the "quick access" search bar in the top-right of the UI is still near-white and visually pops out.
  2. The "find" bar in the Task List view has the same issue as 1). Maybe they use the same widget in the background?
  3. The Preferences menu has white separator lines (honestly I would drop them entirely they have always been ugly)
  4. All plain buttons (e.g. Preferences "Apply" button) look awkward with their white border and hard corners, don't really fit in with the rest of the elegant theme. Also, focused buttons have a really weird double-outline (white from the button plus blue from the focus state).
  5. The margins of the "tree view" in the Preferences window are off. The tree view has a darker background than the window, that would be fine but it doesn't cover all available space, creating strange-looking areas.
  6. Group panes should use a darker outline, currently it's almost white.
  7. Checkboxes could use some dark love, too.
  8. Dropdown-menus have nice styling on the overlay that pops up, but the dropdown-button itself looks untouched compared to the regular eclipse theme.

Finally, I know that this is an odd question to ask, but could you include an option to keep the regular eclipse icons? They aren't perfect, but I'm just too used to them by now, I can't find anything without them.

Submitted by knight rider on Sun, 12/17/2017 - 09:00

Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Oxygen.1a Release (4.7.1a)
Build id: 20171005-1200
OS: Windows 10, v.10.0, x86_64 / win32

for example:

public class HelloWorld {
private int unusedInt = 0;
private boolean unusedBoolean = true;

public static void main(String[] args) {
  System.out.println(sayHello());
}

private static String sayHello() {
  return "Hello World";
}
}

 

the class  HelloWorld's clolor must be red,but it's white.

i reinstall the theme,it still the same.

 

why ? 

it can't surport the Java EE IDE for web developers(4.71a) ?

 

Submitted by Simon Raybould on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 15:45

Since "upgrading" from DarkestDark to DevStyle, things are no longer so dark anymore :-(
For example, #ifdef-ed out code had a black background before which was great but now it's got a yukky green background, so not dark at all.
This is just one example but I've noticed a few like this and must say that I preferred how it was before.

So how do I change these colours back to how they were in the "DarkestDark" theme?
Failing that, how do I remove DevStyle and go back to the orignial DarkestDark theme?

Thaks, Simon.

 

Submitted by Aaron Lara on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 16:21

Simon, Sorry our darkest dark (from DevStyle) is not as Dark as you expected. Do you mind sending some screenshots for the example you mentioned? If possible, you can you send them to our Support page for a better support and tracking.

On the other hand, with DevStyle you can always customize your theme and make it much darker. Just go to Window > Preferences > DevStyle > Color Theme and select "Dark Custom", then adgust L where higher value means darker (for dark themes). Additionally you can select a different Editor theme with darker background (and of course select "theme background") if you desire.

Hope this information helps.

Cheers!

Submitted by Mark Leone on Sat, 12/09/2017 - 14:47

I prefer dark themes, and the ones in DevStyle look great, but with one significant problem. The drop-down arrows for unexpanded nodes in tree widgets have very little contrast relative to their background. At first glance, it looks like they're not even there. But if I look very closely, I can just make them out. When the node is expanded, the arrow is very light and so highly visible.

I tried available customizations, but I can't find a way to make the arrows sufficiently visible in a dark theme. Is there a customization I'm missing? If not, am I the only one having problems with this? If not, perhaps it can be addressed in a future release. I the arrows are dark to provide contrast between expanded and collapsed nodes, perhaps the colors can be reversed. When a node is expanded you already see the children (except when it's empty), so perhaps the hard-to-see arrows should be used when you already have other visual cues. Or better yet, provide contrasting arrow colors that both show up well against their background.

Submitted by Aaron Lara on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 17:09

Mark Leone, Thanks for reaching out! Can you please provide some screenshots of the issue you are describing, you can send them to our Support page for better tracking.

Also, issues like this are present when using Windows Classic theme (I'm talking about the overall OS theme) as SWT is not very customizable in such legacy themes. Are you by any chance using windows classic as your OS theme? if you are, swiching to a standard theme will fix the issue in dark themes.

Cheers! Aaron Lara

Submitted by Mark Leone on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 20:16

Thanks for your reply, Aaron. I sent a screenshot with some further explanation to the support e-mail account.

I should have mentioned it, but this problem is occurring on MacOS. I installed DevStyle on my CentOS 7 system at work, and it looks great. The arrows are white, which gives them great contrast. On MacOS they're black, very nearly the same color as the background.

Since you asked about the OS theme, I tried changing the color profile on the DIsplay Preferences tab in MacOS, but it had no effect on drop-down arrow color or visibility. I cycled through all the profiles and there was no appreciable difference. If there are some other settings I can try on the Mac, I'll be glad to.

Submitted by Mark Leone on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 23:46

At Aaron's suggestion via e-mail, I tried the regular eclipse dark theme, and it had the same problem. So I looked around at MacOS settings, and I found that in the Accessibility system preference pane on the Display tab, there is a setting "Increase Contrast. It was checked, so I unchecked it, and that fixed it. So increasing contrast has the opposite effect, perhaps because the sense of the preference is reversed with dark themes.

Submitted by Alejandro Rico on Sat, 12/09/2017 - 12:54

Hello. It's a wonderfull looking theme. I want it!.

But, though I've tried, I cannot make it work on Kinetis Design Studio (KDS). This IDE is based on eclipse, then I understand that many core features requiered for 'Darkest Theme' may not be available. I don't know.

But, is there a way to make it work on this IDE?

Submitted by David D on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 16:14

Great plugin so far with a nice dark theme. But there are some glitches with Ubuntu. Since I haven't found an issue tracker, here they are:

1. when a dialog is open, the toolbar buttons turn to light gray (pasteboard.co/GWHzgaA.png)

2. the selected item in a tree or in a table has an orange background with a light gray for the text which is difficult to read (pasteboard.co/GWHBJpF.png).

3. Dropdown menus are weird (pasteboard.co/GWHCNrm.png)

Submitted by Brian Fernandes on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 15:12

David, thank you for the kind words, we're glad you like our dark theme!

I'm afraid some of the GTK themes do not play well with the DevStyle theme. While we're looking into improving the behavior regardless of the OS theme selected, a workaround for now would be to choose a Dark-friendly GTK theme, like Adwaita or perhaps OSX-Arc-Darker. I think you may be on Ambiance which doesn't work too well.

A public issue tracker for theme related issues is here: https://www.genuitec.com/issue-tracker/

 

 

 

Submitted by Adrian Heath on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 08:30

Ctrl-F now brings up Devstyle search dialog rather than the default Eclipse one but Ctrl-K (Eclipse Search find next) stills works using the previous Eclipse Search find string.

Confused me at first until I found the devstyle settings to turn off the inline search.

Submitted by Brian Fernandes on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 14:10

Adrian, thank you for pointing that out. We overlooked the Find Next/Previous commands and we'll have them fixed in our next release.

Tip: Pressing Ctrl + F twice will bring up the regular search dialog, even if Inline Search is enabled.

Submitted by Tim Webb on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 15:32

Unfortunately that's not viable.  Due to some fundamentals of how DevStyle works, compatibility with Mars is a hard bar to pass.  Given this was already a significant undertaking to provide in Neon + Oxygen, and the smaller market of Mars users, it's hard to justify the investment for a free plugin!  We're glad you like it and hopefully your project work will allow you to move to Neon or Oxygen soon!

Submitted by Tony Weddle on Tue, 11/21/2017 - 01:27

Thanks, Aaron. You're comments are greatly appreciated. A lot of work has gone into this so it's very satisfying to get this sort of comment.

Tony, Genuitec

Submitted by Tony Weddle on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 05:24

Thanks for the comments, Serkan, they are much appreciated.

As far as the editor background color is concerned, do you have DevStyle enabled? If so, did you check the "Use editor theme background" option? If so, the default editor theme (Darkest Dark) will produce a very slightly lighter editor background. However, with Devstyle enabled, you do have more theming options and, for example, choosing the Sunburst theme and checking that option, mentioned above, you'll get a true black baground.

If you have further problems with this, please raise an issue on our Darkest Dark forum by clicking the Help icon ("?") on the plugin product page (above).

Submitted by Ed Waldner on Mon, 10/16/2017 - 14:37

Is there a way to restore the red highlight for build errors in the MCUXpresso IDE console using this theme? I installed the pluggin via Eclipse Marketplace Client 1.53 onto MCUXpresso IDE 10.0.2. Colors look great for editor and IDE in general, but errors are not displayed with colored highlighting or colored text, despite the settings showing the desired color scheme for build errors.

Submitted by Tony Weddle on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 03:19

Ed, thanks for your comments on Darkest Dark. It seems that the console you're referring to is the CDT console (which is also in the eclipse CPP package). In this case, you can set the various colors used by going to Window->Preferences->C/C++->Build->Console and setting the colors you want there. By default, Darkest Dark have set the background color to a deep black (on a generally grey console background).  I have tried changing colors here and the color settings are honored. If this is not your situation, could you please raise the issue on our forum (click the "?" icon above) and give us as much detail as possible about the problem (screenshots would also help).

Submitted by Marko Zajc on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 05:40

The theme itself looks amazing!!!

Sadly, everytime I start Eclipse Photon (4.8.0), the javadoc background and fonts color are set to black. But when I uninstall Darkest Dark, it doesn't behave so.

 

Is there a solution for that other than uninstalling the theme? Please help!

Submitted by Tony Weddle on Wed, 10/04/2017 - 02:49

Marko, thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, we don't yet have an update site for Photon, so I guess you've installed the Oxygen version. Of course, we will be making this available for Photon but I don't have a schedule for that and Photon isn't yet released, though we're likely to have something that works before Photon is released in June 2018. I'm afraid that if you want to use Darkest Dark (DD), you'll probably have to revert to eclipse Oxygen. However, I checked DD on Linux Mint with Photon and didn't see the issue you mentioned. Could you mention which OS you're using, so we can check this issue when we start to test with Photon?

Submitted by George Sedov on Thu, 12/07/2017 - 04:38

I have the same issue with oxygen. Every time I start eclipse some values are reverted to the wrong values. The ones I noticed are javadoc color and background (black), colored labels - match highlight (also black) and c/c++ editor text font (consolas regular 10).

All the affected items have a default of some sort (they are either "set to default" or "override default"). Seems like the plugin can't handle such items correctly.

To add strangeness to this behaviour: you can't simply "revert" the value - it does not save the reverted value. You first need to pick a new value, apply and save it, and only then the "revert" will restore the values intended by the theme.

Submitted by Brian Fernandes on Fri, 12/08/2017 - 17:29

Are you using our light theme (now part of the 2017 CI 9 release) or dark theme? If you switch to the other, just to test, do you still experience these problems?

Unfortunately there are still some situations where the preferences just do not behave. The good news is that we believe we know why, and the next release will inclue a fix. Let us know if you would be interested in testing a pre-release with the fix, we'll let you know when it becomes available.

Submitted by J W on Wed, 09/20/2017 - 13:40

I wasn't thrilled to open Eclipse to a popup asking me to try something out.

I clicked "agree" to checkout DevStyle and see what it is.

It adds some weird branded startup menu. Which does what?

Each time I open Eclipse, I have to select my workspace. It then takes several extra seconds to open the editor. Can you believe this? Eclipse already takes a while to open.

Granted, the ability to choose icon packs is nice, as is the theme itself as always. But I'm not interested in a foreign startup menu crapping up my development experience.

Dev, your theme is appreciated. Can we keep it to that?

Submitted by Brian Fernandes on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 05:26

JW,

First, I'm glad you like the theme, thank you - if you haven't already tried them, DevStyle adds attractive light themes as well.

You can turn off the startup experience by clicking the "Use Classic Eclipse Startup Dialog" link in the bottom left of the Launch tab of the startup dialog, taking you back to the default Eclipse startup behavior, while keeping other parts of DevStyle enabled. We do realize this link is not too easy to find, and our next release will make it more obvious. You can also turn it off from the Darkest Dark preference page within the workbench.

The Enhanced Startup Experience gives you the ability to quickly locate resources you were working with, especially when you've been using multiple workspaces. In a subsequent release, we'll be adding simpler wizards that help you quickly start new projects across an array of technologies, and we'll add more features over time. Of course, we realize this won't be useful for everyone/everytime, so it's only an optional part of DevStyle - you can turn it off, while keeping the other features like light themes, inline find, and the breadcrumb toolbar still enabled. For more on the startup experience see this doc: https://www.genuitec.com/docs/workbench/using-devstyle-startup-experien… and more on DevStyle in general, see here: https://www.genuitec.com/tech/devstyle

Hope this helps, thank you again for your comment.

Submitted by Tony Weddle on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 07:14

Thanks for the comment, Dsfjkla Sfljkgaljk and for trying Darkest Dark!

This isn't a known problem but perhaps you could check for updates first and, if it still happens, let us know the details (including your OS and version and a screenshot) over at our support forum. We'd love to resolve this for you. Our forum can be reached by clicking on the support link icon above (the circle with "?" in it) then going to the Theme Problems forum.