

Open Eclipse and in the top menu go to Help->Install New Software. Just follow the steps below to change the theme of Eclipse. Liferay Developer Studio is a plugin for Eclipse that provides many Liferay-specific features and additional enterprise only features. You’ll be using The Eclipse Color Theme for this purpose. Just make sure that you have installed the latest version of Eclipse in Ubuntu or whichever operating system you are using. I am using Ubuntu Linux to demonstrate changing themes in Eclipse, but this should be the same procedure for Windows and Mac OS X version. Installing a New Theme New custom themes are located in vault/.obsidian/snippets/. When you select that, it will show you different available themes in the right pane. To change the coloring scheme, go to Window > Preferences > DVT > Themes. If you prefer dark, you can give Eclipse a dark look easily. In the left sidebar, go to General->Appearance->Color Theme. DVT is integrated with Eclipse Color Themes. I am just going to show you how to change the default light colored theme in Eclipse and give it a new, fresh and different look. I am not going to dig deep in to what kind of customization you can do with Eclipse. One of the most loved feature about Eclipse is customization. If you ever used Eclipse, you would know why so. In my universities, the start up where I interned, the big IT company where I currently work at, Eclipse has always been the main tool for development. This article demonstrates how to change the color theme in Eclipse by installing Eclipse Color Theme plugin.Įclipse is the preferred IDE for C++, Java, Android, Perl and what not.
