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Bug 383929

Summary: Lightweight CSS Editor is somewhat obnoxious for web programmers and/or dark themes
Product: [Eclipse Project] e4 Reporter: Ryan P <dkived>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: gheorghe, Lars.Vogel, pwebster
Version: 0.12Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Ryan P CLA 2012-06-29 14:03:45 EDT 
The Lightweight CSS Editor plugin includes two distinct components - the CSS editor itself, and the panel in Preferences>General>Appearance that allows you to edit your current CSS. For Java developers with a vanilla Eclipse install, I'm sure this works great. For others, there are a couple problems.

First, the CSS Editor is one of many poorly designed editors that fails to properly set up syntax highlighting. As anyone who prefers dark themes knows, there are many Eclipse editor plugins which define foreground colors to black without setting background colors (this is horrible UI - never assume anything about the user's setup; should always make sure to define background color when you define foreground) -- this editor is one of those.

To get around this, I went and changed all of the background colors for CSS syntax highlighting to white, which results in an odd editor view as the editor background is still black, but the text is highlighted in white. ;)

Second, any web developer likely already has the WTP CSS Editor (or some other CSS editor) set up to their liking, and it seems like it would make more sense for this plugin to use the user's default CSS editor when available (like opening any other CSS file), and fall back to the included editor for those who do not have one, or maybe distribute the editor and the preference pane separately.
Comment 1 Ryan P CLA 2012-06-29 14:06:43 EDT 
One more thing: the editor does not expand to the size of the Preferences window; it remains at ~63x~34 and cannot be resized.
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-01-09 08:50:19 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-01-09 09:45:03 EST 
The e4 CSS editor has been retired.