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Bug 112862

Summary: [Forms] Expose more color settings to preferences
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Morten Moeller <morten-eclipse>
Component: User AssistanceAssignee: platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: cgold, eclipse
Version: 3.1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Morten Moeller CLA 2005-10-17 16:27:15 EDT 
To avoid issues like Bug 112811, it would be nice if colors used in Eclipse 
wasn't hardcoded to specific system colors. 
 
For example, FormColors, set background to this: 
 
125:  background = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_LIST_BACKGROUND); 
 
But sometimes this is just not a good color based on the theme (I've seen 
people with complex custom windows themes as well where this just doesn't look 
good borderlining useless, so it is not just a Linux issue).  
 
I can override it in my applications by code, but it makes eclipse harder to 
use out of the box. It would be really nice if I could set these color 
assumptions up in Appearance > Colors & Font preferences.
Comment 1 Kim Horne CLA 2005-10-18 09:54:25 EDT 
The forms plugin doesn't currently use the themes support.
Comment 2 Chris Goldthorpe CLA 2011-02-04 16:39:01 EST 
There is no plan to fix this.