Eclipse Color Theme makes it possible to switch color themes conveniently and without side effects.
After the installation, go to Window→Preferences→General→Appereance->Color Theme to change the color theme.
Please note:
If you are using a version of the plugin lower than 0.6, please uninstall and reinstall it from the new location. Update site and plugin ID have changed.
While Eclipse allows you to change the syntax coloring in great detail, there is no support for managing multiple color themes. It is possible to achieve that by importing and exporting preferences files, but this is inconvenient and likely to mess up your preferences. Furthermore, color themes have to be created for every single editor, a theme for the Java editor does not change the XML, JavaScript or any other editors. This plugin solves these issues by mapping a generic color theme format to specific preferences entries for each supported editor.
Eclipse Color Theme currently supports the following editors:
- Text
- Java
- Java properties
- XML
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- C++
- PHP
- Ant
- SQL
- Python
- JSP
- Perl
- Groovy
- FDT
- ActionScript/MXML (Adobe Flash Builder)
- Ruby
- Scala
- FreeMarker (JBoss Tools)
- PDE
- ColdFusion (CFEclipse)
- TCL
- BibTex/LaTeX (TeXlipse)
- R (StatET)
- Erlang (ErlIDE)
- haXe (eclihx)
- Clojure (Counterclockwise)
- Go (GoClipse)
Available themes:
Oblivion
Obsidian
Zenburn
RecognEyes
Inkpot
Vibrant Ink
Tango
Havenjark
frontenddev
NightLion Aptana Theme
Schuss
Notepadd++ Like
Sublime Text 2
Wombat
Pastel
minimal
Gedit Original Oblivion
Black Pastel
Mr
Monokai
Roboticket
Sunburst
Retta
You can download additonal themes or create your own on eclipsecolorthemes.org.
If you have a feature request such as support for another editor, create an issue or a pull request on GitHub.
If you like the plugin and feel generous, you could make a donation.
Reviews
Nice add-on but needs more controls for C dark themes
I started by a theme offered in the website, but had to change few things to make it right for C (dark theme).
Among few things needed to change the tooltip, Annotation (Make it box instead of highlight) , and inactive highlight color. Then I wanted to publish it in the website, but realized they do not get tweaked.
Expensive
While I appreciate the work and benefit Color Theme represents, I just looked into adding into Eclipse 3.8. It requires 100 MB additional bloat. Really? Thanks, but I'll pass.
Change tab gets slow
When i installed this plugin, changing tabs gets slower, about 2 seconds to load tab. Really irritating...
it's noothing to do with this
it's noothing to do with this plugin, if you are running Juno SR1 please install performance patch http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Juno_Performance_Investigation
this plugin is osm
Works only for editor window
The plugin allows to change color scheme only in editor window.
The rest still hurt my eyes (Navigator, Package Explorer, consoles etc)
Pretty disappointing.
Nice plugins
i installed successfully, and i could change my juno themes and pretty good for my eyes if i coding in dark place
FAIL - breaks ability to select strings on double click
Now when I double click on a string in python source code
eclipse juno osx fails to select string as highlighted
sorry can't find the right place to report an issue
eclipse juno, cdt , eclipse color theme 0.12.0.
switching to dark theme and then back to the default:
mouse over function call shows the small preview, this preview is
in wrong color (dark but not coming from the last theme ).
Great plugin.
This functionallity was missing from Eclipse for a long time. This plugin does the job and should be included by default in future eclipse releases.
tahnks developer for this, makes it much easier on my eyes
To install, you need to have the install software tab open, and then drag and drop the install button, worked for me on Juno :)
I can't install it.
This a much needed feature but i can't install it. When i drag the install icon onto my workspace it just pastes the url of installbutton.png.
Is there another way to install this?
please provide login details for eclipse-color-theme.github.com
i have a problem about eclipse-color-theme ,when i set plug-in in MyEclipse Configuration Center,MyEclipse constantly prompts me to enter a username and password.
I am wondering about username and password. what username and password is correct?
Support for Juno
It looks like the update site URL is not working with Eclipse 4.2 Juno. Does somebody can confirm?
Can't drag and drop
I have Windows 7, don't know if that is the problem but I cannot drag the icon tag and drop it into my open Eclipse. I would really like this plugin based on the reviews. Is there some other way to to download it, like put it on the software update list in Eclipse. That way I could always get the latest version when I do an update.
Thanks.
Great plugin! For future can everything be themed?
I am so happy you made this plugin. It saved me a ton of time.
I like black background with colored text.
I would like the whole program to change with the theme someday, so all the tabs surrounding the editor have a black background.
Installing this theme
Hi, i'm new in this site "marketplace", can anyone tell me how can i install this theme in my blackberry plugin Eclipse?
4th most downloaded plugin of this month!
Congratulation to the developer of this plugin, by now it's the 4th most downloaded plugin of the month, even more downloaded than other important plugins such as PyDev and Google Plugin!
IMHO this highlights the necessities of many developers and the importance of having light and dark color schemes directly supported by Eclipse.
Tab coloring per project
Hi, It would be nice if you will get involved in Tab coloring per project. Coloring tab of each file per it project can be a nice feature, mostly for multiple versions of same product, where file names are the same.
Lovely
This plugin is great! IMO, this should be integrated into Eclipse! Code highlighting themes aren't simply vanity, a nice theme makes it more pleasurable to read code thus makes me more productive.
A little issue: after installing this plugin and restarting Eclipse, then configuring a theme, restarting the editors does not suffice to apply the theme correctly. I had to restart Eclipse another time. Not a great deal, but the initial tweak before restarting had black on grey background, which scared me :)
Also, in C++ with a dark theme you might want to change the "General -> Annotations -> C/C++ Occurences" background color. Otherwise, you get unreadable light on light color on the currently selected keyword/definition. You might also want to change the backgrounds in "Preferences->C/C++->Editor->Appearance Color Options->Inactive Code Hightlight"
Sorry to hear that
Sorry to hear that uninstalling didn't work for you. You've probably done this, but here's the uninstall procedure:
1. Go to: Help->Install new Software...
2. Click on the "already installed" link on the lower right part of the window.
3. Select "Eclipse Color Theme" and press "Uninstall".
If you can't find "Eclipse Color Theme" there, try finding it on the "Features" or "Plug-ins" tabs.
Thanks!
The above did the uninstall for me. Thanks for the tip!
Great! But unable to uninstall old version ...
I had installed an older version of this utility previously, but couldn't uninstall it because it didn't appear under the installed tab under the marketplace. I installed this new version on top of it, hoping it would overwrite the old one but it didn't. Now I have 2 color themes in preferences. Is there any way to manually remove/uninstall the old version?
That aside, this is great! Previously I had to muck around with config files to change the theme. This makes it much easier to change themes.
[Edit for grammar]
Excellent idea
great idea and a very handy website to create and publish your own themes. Only thing I would like to see is the ability to add a theme per content type
You mean e.g. different theme
You mean e.g. a different theme for Java than for XML?
Thank you!
You almost saved my life, and for sure you have saved my eyes! THIS IS THE BEST ECLIPSE PLUGIN EVER !!!!!
I have only a problem: now the debug output text appears in gray with a white background, so it's almost unreadable... I have taken a screenshot of it here (I'm using "oblivion" theme):
https://skitch.com/fmaida/rmkek/eclipse-color-theme-issue
Could you fix that please? And if you could, please add more styles and support for Python/PyDev syntax in a next update. Thank you very much.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the info! I've created an issue for this, we will address it:
https://github.com/eclipse-color-theme/eclipse-color-theme/issues/issue/4
PyDev support has also landed by now.
Great stuff
Great stuff on this plugin. I love the vibrant ink theme. There are still sometimes some color conflicts (dark on dark, light on light) on things like mark occurrences and the such that users will have to adjust to their liking. Otherwise, awesome and much needed. BIG THANKS!
The mark occurrences issues
The mark occurrences issues are fixed now.
Please add more theme
Especially twilight-ish, the existing ones are to colorful for me :P. Anyway, I really love this, thanks.
I've added three additional
I've added three additional themes in version 0.6, see the list above. It's furthermore now possible to import themes from http://eclipsecolorthemes.org.
great job!
I can't believe the plugin will improve this much, the site especially is a great idea! I will recommend this plugin to others! Thanks.