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Dark Eclipse Theme

August 16
by prabir 16. August 2009 15:12

Even though not an Eclipse user, I had to use it for my university course. I really don’t like the default white theme. Even in Visual Studio I use the dark theme which can be downloaded from http://blog.prabir.me/post/My-Visual-Studio-Theme.aspx.

In order to increase my productivity the coloring is same as my dark Visual Studio Theme.

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To use the theme download the file (.epf). In the Eclipse menu. Click File>Import. You will land up with a dialog box. In the tree view Select General>Prefrences and click next button. Select browse and point to the .epf file which you just downloaded. Select import all and click finish. That will import all the color settings.

I would prefer you to download the consolas one, which i think is a better font for coding rather than the courier new.

Note: The font used is Consolas which comes preinstalled with Windows Vista and up. But incase you want to use it for your Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or others you can either download from below or from the official Microsoft link over here.

Click here to download the theme

Consolas Font Pack.exe (4.33 mb) [Downloads: 756]

prabir_darktheme_consolas_epf_v1.1.zip (latest) (5.10 kb) [Downloads: 1217]

prabir_darktheme_consolas_epf.zip (5.00 kb) [Downloads: 426]

prabir_darktheme_epf.zip (4.85 kb) [Downloads: 529]

[UPDATE]

Due to the popularity. I moved moved the themes to be in source control, which can be found at http://gitorious.org/themes. If any one of you would like to contribute your own theme or extend my dark theme please post it in the comment below. My dark themes for various IDEs and text editors can be download from http://www.ohloh.net/p/themes/download


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8/16/2009 3:17:48 PM #

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8/17/2009 4:14:56 PM #

rakesh juyal

nice theme Smile

rakesh juyal India

8/17/2009 6:06:59 PM #

steven

seems to be missing some colour setups... specifically the left narrow border between line numbers and the text. also the hover over popup thing is hard to read... i guess i can just tweek these

steven Australia

8/17/2009 6:37:26 PM #

Robert

Thank you for the theme! The colors are much better then a contrast with white. Smile This should be the default theme in every editor.

Robert Germany

8/17/2009 7:19:39 PM #

prabir

after using it for a while i found out that some colors are missing as steven had commented. i tried going changing it but for some reason some stuffs are disabled and can't change it.
i definitely think this should be the default theme. much pleasent and can stare for longer Smile

prabir Nepal

8/22/2009 1:34:28 AM #

cab

Hi prabir,
Thanks for this awesome theme. It's good for my eyes B-)
Unfortunately I had to switch back, because I couldn't read the text in the XML editor.
Did you find a way to modify those?

cab Germany

8/30/2009 11:02:01 PM #

prabirshrestha

hi,
i have just uploaded my latest eclipse theme (v1.1 which you can download form the post). but for now the xml is only black and white along with some minor changes to others. so its readable.
i don't use eclipse much at all, so i just have colors that work for what i use.

anyways if you want to know how to change the theme, you can go to windows>prefrences menu
for java it would be in java>editor>syntax coloring. its quite similar for html and other editors also.

prabirshrestha United States

10/22/2009 9:47:42 PM #

hmmm

DON't update to this epf file.
It has everything in it, not just color redefinition.
You are going to corrupt your current workspace and eventually get a new workspace ala: D:\Prabir\.....

hmmmm

hmmm United States

10/22/2009 10:05:30 PM #

prabirshrestha

Didnt realize tat it would change the eclipse workspace but anyways u can switch the workspace again. or might be there is some option to import only colors.

prabirshrestha Nepal

11/5/2009 6:20:52 PM #

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Great blog, this could be the best blog I ever visited this month. Never stop to write something useful dude!

Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita United States

11/10/2009 3:37:14 PM #

Juan Romero Abelleira

Thank you for the editor theme. I use TextMate whenever I can, and this will ease the pain when just I can't avoid using Eclipse.

Changing the workspaces again is a minor hassle, and well worth it.

Thanks!

Juan Romero Abelleira Switzerland

11/12/2009 5:44:04 PM #

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Excellently written article, if only all bloggers offered the same content as you, the internet would be a much better place. Please keep it up! Cheers.

Oes Tsetnoc United States

11/24/2009 4:21:35 AM #

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Great post.

waggi United States

11/26/2009 8:05:21 AM #

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Select browse and point to the .epf file which you just downloaded. Select import all and click finish. That will import all the color settings.

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12/13/2009 12:35:02 AM #

Jonah

Hi prabir,

Thanks! This is a great theme.  The only problem I see so far is that Console windows output is very hard to read: it's light green on a white background.  I cannot figure out how to change this back to normal black on white (or, better yet, white on black).  Do you know a way?

Jonah United States

12/14/2009 7:12:42 AM #

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Thanks for this awesome theme. It's good for my eyes B-)
Unfortunately I had to switch back, because I couldn't read the text in the XML editor.

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12/18/2009 9:48:08 PM #

GaryC

Thank you a bunch.. Really a HUGE help.

GaryC United States

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