Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle

John - thank you for the report. I just confirmed that the site is up now, and we run tests frequently to ensure our update sites stay online; we have had no recent outages. Can you access the URL to that artifact in a regular browser? It's possible that you have a corrupt cache, and you can try with a fresh install of Eclipse, or go to Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Site, locate the site and hit Reload. If this does not help, please use the support link so we can provide detailed assistance.

Apologies for not getting to this post earlier. It's possible that you aren't setting the right run level for core theme plugins. I hope this helps - please see https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/theme-is-not-working-with-runtime… for more details, do follow up on our forums for further support.

I'm sorry we missed your post, Jim. We're very sensitive about performance, and none of the changes we make should have a performance impact, especially one as severe as you describe. We've had no other reports of performance issues either, but would be happy to examine your environment to see if there is something amiss. Please use the support link to open an issue on our forums so we can discuss in more detail.

Sorry about that - we had a short outage during which you may have attempted installation. The site is back up now, do try again.

There was a short outage which would have caused this, the update sites are now back online. Stefan, thank you for contacting us on our forums, glad you are up and going now.

Gregor, we don't have known issues with debugging colors. Could you help us by letting us know what language you are debugging, what OS/version you are using, and what theme is activated? Thanks!

Stephan, I'm actively running with the same setup at my end and I don't see issues as the ones you descrive. Can you please provide ScreenShots of what you see? 

Cheers!

Aaron Lara

Hi,

thanks for quick answer. I tried once again I had again problems (now I have MacOS is in dark mode) with DevStyle  in LightGray. Some Comboboxes do not show the text to choose from and the DevStyle in-window search text can only be seen when selected. I can provide screenshots but how. Cannot attach files in marketplace.

I will keep MacOS in dark mode and use DevStyle DarkGray (darkest) which is working fine.

regards

spachner

Stefan, just wanted you to know that we've released an update a few hours ago with a fix for the light themes, so you can take the update and go back to your preferred theme. Thank you for the report!

Rocky, thank you for the report - we'll investigate and see what we can do. On JasperSoft, I'm assuming you're talking about this plugin: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jaspersoft-studio if not, please let us know.

Teo, sorry about that. We did release an update yesterday which had the problems you describe, but we followed up with a second update a few hours later which included the fix. Your installation would probably have already updated by now, but if not, please check for an update and restart to get back to a much improved DevStyle.

Jim, sorry about the problem. It appears to be specific to the eclipse CPP package (the problem doesn't occur with the Java packages) and I've raised a problem report for development to investigate and get a fix out.

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Dik,

Sorry you've had problems with DevStyle on the latest eclipse. I did a quick test with DevStyle on RC2 on Windows 10 but didn't see any problems. Which OS are you using and are there any modifications to the OS or windowing system (e.g. a desktop theme)? It would be great if you could raise the issue on our forums (just click the "?" in the description) as that is a better platform for support than this reviews section of the MarketPlace. It would be great to get this sorted before the official release of eclipse 4.10.

Ben, we're reviewing performance and issues experienced with prior versions of OpenJDK, to ascertain the best course of action here. Since you're actively using Darkest Dark with Open JDK, have you noticed any problems? Can you share your OS/Eclipse version/JDK version details too? Thank you for asking!

Stephan, sorry that you couldn't launch without the -clean option once but it's great you persevered. I hope you're enjoying DevStyle now.

Would you be able to work with us to figure out what happened in your case? I've tried with a clean install of eclipse on a clean install of Kubuntu 18.04 but I'm sure that wasn't your situation. It may be related to the state of the workspace or the state of the eclipse configuration at the time. We could confirm this if you could do a fresh install of DevStyle onto a fresh install of eclipse, with a fresh workspace. If that all works, then could you let us have your eclipse configuration from the existing setup to help us replicate it? The configuration can be obtained by going to Help>About>Installation Details>Configuration and then copy it to the clipboard to paste into a new text file. If possible, could you provide that information on the support forums, rather than what is designed as a review platform? You'd be able to attach files in the forums at: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/darkest-dark/ .

Thanks for reporting this, hopefully, we can get to the root of the problem.

Sebastian, thanks for installing DevStyle and sorry for the problems with syntax styling; that does sound very frustrating, as you say. I'm not sure why you're exporting and importing settings, this shouldn't be needed for a single workspace and your editor settings should be honored. I assume you mean eclipse 2018-09 and I haven't been able to replicate the problem with that build. In my case, I've installed eclipse-javascript-2018-09 and then ensured that the return keyword was set to bold in my JavaScript editor preferences (it was actually the default setting). Then I installed DevStyle from the MarketPlace and restarted. I still see that return keyword preference set to bold, and it is retained after a couple of restarts. Could you detail the steps you took, to help us replicate (including any DevStyle preferences). Also, the OS you're using might be relevant.

If you could raise the issue on our support forum at https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/devstyle/theme-problems/ that would also allow you to attach your eclipse error log, which may contain errors related to the problem (it would help if you could clear the log then reproduce the problem, to ensure the log is concentrated on the issue).

Sebastian, we did see something similar early this year. Although we weren't able to track down the problem then (though there was a possibility that Oomph tracking settings changes might have been part of the problem), the issue was solved by starting eclipse with a new workspace and importing projects into it. A new workspace is always a good check as corruption in a workspace does occasionally occur.

Thiago, thanks for giving it a go. Sorry that your first experience was terrible. It seems that another user sees the same thing though this is the first we've heard of this particular issue, despite thousands of installs. The other user is running Kubuntu, though we couldn't replicate with a straightforward install. The other person, Stephan, says he managed to sort it by launching once with the -clean flag. Though this shouldn't be needed, can you try this to see if it fixes it? I would also have suggested trying a fresh workspace, as a test. It may be that the state of the workspace or configuration, with other plugins and settings weren't properly coped with by the initial launch of DevStyle and it would be great if we could track this down to fix it for other users. If possible, could you raise the issue on the support forums, rather than what is designed as a review platform? You'd be able to attach files in the forums at: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/darkest-dark/ and it may be helpful to attach the eclipse configuration at the point of install.

Alternatively, if you can post the OS and windowing system here, along with the build and package of eclipse, that may help us replicate it. Also, if there are some major plugins you've installed, it may give us more clues.

Thanks for any help you can provide and sorry, again, for having a really bad first experience. I hope you can give it another go.

Nathan, sorry you're having a problem. It's difficult to think of how a theme could alter behavior in that way and we haven't been able to reproduce the problem so far. Can you ensure you're using the same editor you were before installing DevStyle? Perhaps leave the editor open and then switch back to the Classic theme (you'd need a restart) and see if you get that behavior back. You can also check which default editor is set for the file by right clicking on the file and selecting Open With (the default editor will have a highlighted icon).

If you've installed DevStyle as part of another plugin feature, you may be seeing a different editor behavior. If you continue to see this problem, is it possible for you to raise a new topic for it on our forums? Here is the forum home URL: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/ . You should use the appropriate forum for the product you've installed (or just DevStyle>Theme Problems if it still seems like a theme issue).

Thiago, thank you for your candid feedback. Apart from information collected during user-initiated support requests, we do not collect any personally identifiable information.

On review of this clause, we realize that it contains rather over zealous boilerplate jargon that must be tightened to only specify what is actually being collected by DevStyle. Like our other products, we will also be adding a preference allowing you to opt out of metrics collection. Both these changes will make it to a release in the near future. Thanks!

Could you post the details (including OS and release) in our support forums? You can also add screenshots. Forums here: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/devstyle/

Can you provide some examples of where and when the random coloring change occurs? We might be able to do something about it with Darkest Dark (and other DevStyle dark themes) if we have more details. The release of eclipse and the OS being used would also help. If you post on our support forums, you can add a screenshot to give us a better understanding. Support forums are here: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topics/devstyle/