With Eclipse 3.x, theme is only for the editors, as you can see in the site ' Eclipse Color Themes'.Īnything around that is managed by windows system colors. If you export your plug-in, place it in the “dropins” folder of your Eclipse installation and your styling is available. If you want to play with it, you only need to write a plug-in, create a CSS file and use the 4.ui. extension point to point to your file. See the article by Lars Vogel in ' Eclipse 4 is beautiful – Create your own Eclipse 4 theme': With the latest Eclipse4.2 (June 2012, 'Juno') release, you can implement what I originally described below: a CSS-based fully dark theme for Eclipse. New language is not necessary just for this kind of purpose. It proves that again, the concise codes and advanced features could be achieved by contributing or extending with the external form (like library, framework).

The big fun is that, the codes are minimized by using Eclipse4 platform technologies like dependency injection.

The blog post ' Jin Mingjian: Eclipse Darker Theme' mentions this GitHub repo ' eclipse themes - darker':

How to use eclipse color theme plugin