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Bug 113112 - [Themes] Support global color schemes
Summary: [Themes] Support global color schemes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement with 5 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.4 M6   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
QA Contact: Susan McCourt CLA
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Reported: 2005-10-19 13:16 EDT by Craig Allen CLA
Modified: 2014-03-13 06:29 EDT (History)
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Description Craig Allen CLA 2005-10-19 13:16:45 EDT 
It would be real nice if I could globally change the color schemes in eclipse, 
this black text on white background is killing me!

I know i can change the back ground of the java editor, but then it doesn't do 
anything for the other windows (package explorer, console, problems, etc.) 

I also know that I can change the default colors for my OS via the Display 
Properties, but I really just want my editor to be dark, not my whole OS.

This is the greates editor ever made, I am surprised that this has not been 
added yet, almost every other IDE I have worked with supports it. Is there any 
plans on making this a feature of eclipse?

Thanks
Comment 1 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-17 11:33:37 EST 
Susan is now responsible for watching the [Themes] category.
Comment 2 Paul Verest CLA 2014-03-10 11:10:53 EDT 
Most plugin have their own preferences for font color and background.
Very often it is dark font (that becomes invisible on black background)
Eclipse Color Theme http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-color-theme
is managing these preferences through mapping, supporting plugins one by one.
Recently Eclipse Color Theme is inactive, likely because of coming changes in Luna.

Is Bug 113112 - "[Themes] Support global color schemes" address in M5/M6 of Luna? (copied from Bug 425646 - [Themes] Support for black and inverted color UI themes - check that current theme is black/inverted)
Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2014-03-13 06:29:33 EDT 
I think that on is fixed with Eclipse Luna M6 We can style the appearance of CSS and the CSS can be linked to font and color settings. See http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M6-201403061200/news/