The only solution I saw was toĬreate a plugin that would take care of changing each editor’s So I guess it’s safe to say that using colour themes in Eclipse

And since your preferences contain all yourĮclipse settings, it will completely mess up the other person’s Share a colour theme you created is to export your preferences and have And the XML editor,Īnd the JavaScript editor, and whatever other editor you want to use.Īnd because Eclipse preferences are such a mess, all you can do to Will have to do it again for the JavaScript editor. You actually change all the colours for the Java editor manually, you There are no central colour settings, so every plugin stores their Value pairs of data, and there is no way to export or import preferences I don’t like to stare atīlack on white text all day, so I had to find a way to use colourīefore I continue, you need to know that Eclipse preferences are a Old job, I was forced to stare at it all day. It all started with me being fed up with Eclipse not supportingĬolour themes in any reasonable way. Thought this was a good time to talk a bit about the history and future About half a year ago, I began to work on what has become my most popular open source project up until now: Eclipse Color Theme,Ī plugin that makes it possible to use colour themes in Eclipse.

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