Eclipse is an excellent Java IDE that I use almost everyday, but I do have some minor quarrels with it. The first complaint has to be the lack of color scheme support. Sometimes I just can’t stand staring at black on white for hours on end and desire a color scheme for Eclipse. Unfortunately Eclipse does not support such a thing, only setting each color manually. While it is possible to technically import someone’s preferences as a “color scheme”, you can only export/import the entire range of preferences and not just specifically color. This is not an ideal solution.

I am wanting something like the dark spectrum color scheme from vim or Tango Oblivion from gedit. I find these two very nice dark themes that would be great for those long sessions in eclipse.  Unfortunately I’ve not a found a way to do this, and I am vastly too lazy to manually convert each little color to the correct value in eclipse. That would be extremely boring, tedious, and frustrating trying to get it right.

I have been recommended to take a look at Eclim to see if it would fit my needs. It seems like an interesting effort and I would sort of love to have vim with eclipses integration functionality but it just seems like a whole lot of work for what you get. So for now I must stare at this black on white color scheme in eclipse until a future release perhaps supports color schemes natively.

Perhaps I can blame the colors for writing such horrible code