Improved Tree and Table widget scaling at high DPI on Windows One example where this was very visible is the PDE's manifest editor. Links now consistently use a light blue color in the dark theme. Support for other languages will most likely pick this up for the next release, e.g., the PHP team is working on this in. The same work has been done for the Javadoc popup which makes the dialog much easier to read in the dark theme. Popup dialogs, for example the platform's update notification popup, now use a dark background and a light foreground color in the dark theme. Lots of icons have been adjusted to look better in both the light as well as the dark theme.įor example, the block selection, word wrap and show whitespace icons have been adjusted. To improve readability in the dark theme, bold style usage has been reduced in the Java editor and some colors that were too close to each other have been altered. The Eclipse default dark theme now includes styling for the text editor's range indicator and uses transparency for the expand and collapse buttons. Eclipse 4.8 continues to improve the default text editor. Select Dark, press Apply and Close (and restart your IDE to fully apply the theme). This brings you to the correct preference page. If you want to join this club, simply type "Dark" into the Quick Access box and press enter. Someone once said, that all the cool kids are using a dark theme these days.
Continue to read to learn about the improvements in the platform and in the second part, how plug-in developers can enable their Eclipse contributions for the dark theme. With Eclipse Photon, we are shipping the best support for the dark theme so far. The releases following the initial release constantly improved the capabilities of the underlying CSS engine and the SWT toolkit to enhance the user experience. But the Eclipse platform team wanted to lay the foundation for improvements without the requirement to install external components to test and to drive these improvements. In 2014, many of restrictions existed in the CSS and SWT styling of the Eclipse workspace and the result was not very usable. A few years ago, in 2014, Eclipse IDE announced that it will ship a default dark theme.
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