Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle

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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)

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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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April 2024 5/658 8222 41
March 2024 4/694 14353 82
February 2024 5/687 11373 322
January 2024 5/691 10676 75
December 2023 6/671 9424 59
November 2023 6/686 11696 50
October 2023 5/673 12951 76
September 2023 4/663 13968 59
August 2023 5/673 12590 66
July 2023 5/668 12266 52
June 2023 6/669 13014 60
May 2023 6/671 13537 61
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Submitted by Stephen Thompson on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 15:08

I love this plugin!!!

My only complain is with cut and paste.  If I paste into something that maintains formatting (for example, Skype for Business which my company uses for instant messenger) I get all of these grays and pale blues against light blue backgrounds ... it is hardly legible. I don't know if there is any way to deal with that?

 

 

Submitted by Tim Webb on Thu, 09/14/2017 - 22:18

What file type are you pasting into?  Normally coloring comes from the code syntax, not the actual paste buffer -- normally Eclipse takes the [plain text] format of the copy buffer.

Glad you like it!

Submitted by Stephen Thompson on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 09:20

I'm pasting into Micrsoft Office 2013.   This is really easy to reproduce ... using the default color scheme, go to an XML document like a POM, copy multiple lines of the POM to the clipboard, then paste it into MS Word.  The result is sky blue text pasted into a white document.

Submitted by Brian Fernandes on Thu, 09/14/2017 - 09:47

Andriy, apologies for the delayed response - I can't say we've seen something like this ever reported. What OS are you on? If Linux, what Windowing system and theme? Feel free to create a new topic on our forums: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/darkest-dark/theme-problems/ for detailed assistance.

Submitted by Jochen Buchholz on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 04:31

I install the dark theme and Eclipse Oxygen fails to start and crash with:


!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2017-08-10 10:05:29.794
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: Not implemented [multiple displays]
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4559)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.checkDisplay(Display.java:821)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Display.java:934)
        at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.<init>(Device.java:174)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:559)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:550)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:781)

 

Uninstall it from console via

eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -uninstallIU com.genuitec.eclipse.theming.feature.feature.group

Submitted by Edward Leonard on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 19:13

Trying it out and found a small annoying instance, if you copy & paste a class and are taken to the accept default name, or rename the class option, the suggested classname (whichever class you have copied with a suffix of 2 usually) will now have white text yet be highlighted with a babyblue colour background making it unreadable. If you then move the arrow key back, the baby blue background higlighting goes away but now you cannot see your cursor either. 

This makes it a little fidgety for this operation. functionally it works, but in UX terms it's not the nicest.

Submitted by Mario Charest on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 09:44

Been using it for few days now and feel the need to mention how great it is.  After all these years seems like the beast of a task that is making a Dark theme under Eclipse has been tammed!

Big thanks.

Submitted by Jia Xun Ngoo on Mon, 05/15/2017 - 22:29

After installed the latest update, I constantly get a pop up message which is Java heap size, connection timeout on org.genuitec.theming.ui.

Submitted by Tim Webb on Wed, 05/10/2017 - 11:12

Thank you for providing the details here.  I have cross-posted this to the Darkest Dark forums and would ask that in the future, you post logs there -- it is a lot easier to follow up and actually supports attachments instead of huge messages here.  Thanks!

https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/kills-eclipse-after-installation/

Submitted by Noah Ginsburg on Tue, 04/25/2017 - 11:12

I prefer dark themes and Neon was giving me problems with themes across the on my linux computer. In the rtc client in dark theme, some words were black, So I tried light themes and in the light themes, links were very light blue. But with this Darkest Dark theme, everything seems to be readable.

Submitted by Paulo Castro on Thu, 04/20/2017 - 11:28

Hello,

I like very much the look and feel of this plugin, but my IDE gets too slow after installing it. The Console Window is unusable and switching tabs takes forever.

I tried with a fresh install of STS and with a fresh install of Eclipse Neon + STS. Both of them started to have those problems, making them unusable for developing Spring Boot Apps.

I would like to point out that I use Spring Boot with Developer Tools (spring-boot-devtools) for auto build and live reload.

Submitted by Tim Webb on Tue, 04/25/2017 - 10:29

Given popularity of STS, we do actually test with it and haven't seen any direct performance slowdowns -- right now we are unable to replicate the performance issues you are seeing with Spring Tool Suite and Dark Theme. What would be interesting to know is your workspace setup, specifically the type of projects in the workspace.

  1. You mentioned Spring Boot Apps in your summary. Do you also have several other spring projects in the workspace? Which spring framework(s) are these projects using? Are these Maven projects? Are there many Java classes in these projects?
  2. Which spring specific validators enabled for these projects? Are they defaults or you have additional validators enabled?
  3. When do you see the performance issues? Immediately after launch or when creating projects or other? Do you see any background jobs running at this time?
  4. Which appserver are you deploying your projects to?
  5. Are there are any additional settings that you think might be interesting to share?

Ideally if you could respond with details on our forums (see Support link), that would be superb!  We are striving to make Darkest Dark run smoothly across an array of Eclipse IDEs and your assistant will help greatly!

Submitted by Arun Kumar on Sun, 04/16/2017 - 08:02

Works really nice, My primary motive was to reduce the strain on my eyes while working.. it has reduced drastically..
One thing I noticed was , Progress bars are not aligned properly, as in the progress "blue" bar is below the blank space of progress instead of running over it.
also while launching eclipse, The workspace prompt is kind of messed up in colors with someportions like checkboxes being black while the rest of the window is "off white" as was before the installation of the plugin..

Eclipse neon.3

Submitted by Scott Robinet on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 17:13

This is a must have if you enjoy dark themes in any IDE. Brings Eclipse into the 21st century. Thanks for delivering this!

Submitted by AJ Gray on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:09

I couldn't find any support forums so I'm posting this here.

I have to fight with the theme overwriting my custom syntax coloring options every time I open a workspace. I've had to resort to customizing syntax and then exporting the preferences for each workspace I have. Then, when I load a workspace, I have to import the preferences to put back all my custom syntax coloring.

Would be nice to get this fixed. Love everything about this otherwise.

Submitted by Anabella Watson on Mon, 03/27/2017 - 14:27

Hi Aj,

Here is the link to the forums genuitec . com /forums (Eclipse won't let me post the link) would love if you can post there the issues you are having and any additional comments/concerns etc. We are glad you are loving it, though! :)

Submitted by Renato Perini on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 21:53

This theme started to be in the top 10 downloaded Eclipse plugins in no time. This points out how users consider important a good designed theme for Eclipse.
Some things I would like to see (take them as feature requests):

1) Syntax highlighter: quite unstable now, sometimes it visualizes strange characters or odd color schemes that seem to be completely random (speaking about Java here, I haven't tried much for other languages).

2) More color schemes for code syntax: those from eclipse color theme are great. And that project seem to be dead. Quite a good opportunity here ;-)

3) I love the icon style: I don't know how legal would be to rebrand some icons, but I would like to see some better icons using this style for the project explorer and maven imported projects, various mime-types, new project creation and, if possible, the most popular plugins for Eclipse: JBoss Tools, Spring STS, eGit, MercurialEclipse, etc. Expecially the Docker Tools, they refuse to use a whale for the perspective icon.

4) Stability, stability, stability. A theme has a tremendous important role: if syntax highliting goes crazy, it prevents people from working comfortably.

Thank you.

Submitted by Tim Webb on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 14:49

Awesome Feedback!

1) Syntax highlighter: quite unstable now, sometimes it visualizes strange characters or odd color schemes that seem to be completely random

Mind providing some screenshots or GIFs on what you are seeing? You can tweet them to me at @timrwebb or drop them on our forums. We really aim to strive to make this rock solid. Regarding syntax coloring, that's an odd one as the theme doesn't actually do anything fancy for syntax highlighting other than just provide colors -- curious that it impacts reliability but we'll look at what you share and see what we can sort out!

2) More color schemes for code syntax: those from eclipse color theme are great. And that project seem to be dead. Quite a good opportunity here ;-)

Excellent -- this one is already on the way. We allow you to switch between Editor Color themes in 2017 CI 4 coming out in 1.5 weeks and even import your favorite existing Eclipse Color Theme right into Darkest Dark. No need to install ECT to benefit from efficient color selection, and with the benefit of not smashing thousands of preferences into your workspace.

3) I love the icon style: I don't know how legal would be to rebrand some icons, but I would like to see some better icons using this ......

We continue to strive to brand more icons and would love to have more contributions from users like you! Have you tried to install the Icon Designer to contribute some of your own suggestions? Let us know how it goes over on our Darkest Dark forums if you don't mind!

4) Stability, stability, stability

Right there with you!

Submitted by Eligio Merino on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 12:36

Finally! This is THE Darkest theme I was craving for Eclipse!! At last, I have a quite smooth foreground and background coloring - along with so cool icons - to create, run and debug my Java applications =D My #CoderLife is not every in breath I take but in the great experiences that take my breath away - just as this awesome darkest theme is doing at this very moment!! You should really try it out! Most likely you will also enjoy this amazing pleasure to the eye and bring a beautiful zen-workspace to your projects ^_^