Sorry, but I find it a bit difficult to follow. “but the preset won’t show up” seems to indicate that the files are unziped in the wrong place, or that the jeeeyul is not already installed. “It wants an Eclipse Preference File and the user-presets file is.xml” Who / what wants that? Hmmm, I am starting to suspect something What version of “Jeeeyul’s Eclipse Themes” do you have?
Intellij IDEA recently launched with a cool new Dark theme, so I set about to find something equivalent for my beloved Eclipse. An early version of a dark UI theme for Eclipse 4+. NOTE: Syntax highlighting settings and UI theme are separated, you can import your own scheme or customize it in Eclipse Preferences if you like. The label of the checkboxes has a color difficult to read (WIN) It's related to a SWT bug, use a.
If it is 2, then that’s probably the cause. My tutorial and my files are for 1.x (latest one tested was 1.7.4) From what understand version 2 has some significant changes. I might have to update the tutorial for that. I apologize for the vagueness.
By “the preset won’t show up” I mean that when go to EclipsePreferencesGeneralAppearanceJeeeyul’s Themes, and select the coat hanger-looking drop down menu that gives me the options (Preset)(User Preset), under User Preset I only have the options to (Save As New Preset) (Manage Preset). There is not option for the Dark Theme preset. And when I said that “It wants and Eclipse Preference file” I meant that when I went to manage presets to import a preset, eclipse/finder would fade out and keep me from selecting file options that weren’t.epf. Despite my talent to confuse, you solved the problem. The version of Jeeeyul’s Eclipse Themes I have is 2.1.6.
I’ve tried to find the earlier releases but no luck so far. Any idea where I could find them? Thank you very much for making this available! My Eclipse Kepler on Mac OS X maverick just got really sweet thanks to you! I tried the color theme you mentioned but I am currently using Sublime text 2. One little thing is when in a java editor, the file being edited is highlighted in the outline and in the project explorer as expected but the background color is a light grey. Is that intentionally and if so, how can I make it a bit darker so that it does not stand out so much?
I did not change anything to get the console fixed. Thanks again for your work. This is terrific, thank you. FWIW, the configuration file for Dark-Eclipse goes into /configuration/net.jeeeyul.eclipse.themes at least for my install of Kepler.
Also, EGit decorations will break this CSS config by default. You can, however, change them using PreferencesGeneralAppearanceColors and Fonts settings (set Uncommitted Change(Foreground) to 208,208,208; set Uncommited Change(Background) to 49,49,49). Surely this override could go into the config file with a bit more tracking down of the correct elements, but this is a quick fix. the configuration file for Dark-Eclipse goes into /configuration/net.jeeeyul.eclipse.themes The DarkEclipseTheme.zip already contains the net.jeeeyul.eclipse.themes folder. But it might be possible that some way of unzipping it “flattens” the thing and you get no folder.
And on Linux it is sometimes a bit of a problem to find out where things go, with so many “flavors”:-) EGit decorations will break this CSS config by default That is a problem with all kind of other formats. The color of the “things in the editor” is controlled by “Eclipse Color Theme.” And there is no way that one plugin can “know” of all the file formats supported by 3rd party additions to Eclipse, each one with its own color palette (unfortunately). I think it would be nice if Eclipse would have the concept of “default Eclipse colors” for most common language elements (strings, characters, numbers, keywords1, keywords2, keywords3, comments, etc.) Something like this: So that an editor can go with that default, or its own thing. But meantime I am considering a plugin that can look at the Java colors and copy them to other editors.
Very configurable, with an easy way to add color mappings to new file formats. Still prototyping But meantime I will probably add a note to the main article about that.