SpringSource Tool Suite Change Themes

Question

When I became aware of Sublime, I noticed the benefits of dark themes to your workspace. But since Sublime doesn't have support for Grails at the moment, I search for ways to theme STS or SpringSource Tool Suite and I reached to this article. I tried the plugin and it worked well. Unfortunately, only the Editor area was change by the plugin.

The question is how I change the Color and Fonts of the whole STS or Eclipse?

Quinlan

Answer 1

If you use the current STS milestone (STS 3.0.0), then it is possible, because the underlying Eclipse 4 is now completely themeable. There are already some themes available, however you should consider them beta.

Here is a place to pick a color theme for your editing window: http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/

Hypochondriac

As far as I know there is no way to change the color/theme of the non-editing windows within STS or Eclipse. Are you able to change the background color of the "Package Explorer" or "Console" views? – Bedevil

I have these two installed. Yes it changes the background color of Package Explorer. guari.github.io/eclipse-ui-theme github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes – Noaccount

The article mentioned in the question throws 404. – Yellows

Answer 2

Go to Windows->Preferences->General->Appearance->Select the theme you want.

Frolic

Answer 3

download the plugin here : http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=plugin

If you are on Eclipse 3.6 (Helios), the easiest way to install the plugin is from the Eclipse Marketplace. Go to Help→Eclipse Marketplace..., then search for Eclipse Color Theme and install it.

If you are on Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo), go to Help→Install New Software..., press Add Site and enter Eclipse Color Theme as the name and http://eclipse-color-theme.github.com/update as the URL. Then select the new entry from the select box labeled Work with, mark Eclipse Color Theme for installation and proceed.

Please note: If you are using a version of the plugin lower than 0.6, please uninstall and reinstall it following the instructions above. Update site and plugin ID have changed.

Usage

After the installation, go to Window→Preferences→General→Appereance→Color Theme to change the color theme.

Bouchier

I like this answer more than "accepted" one as this actually details how to get the themes onto your STS – Atonality

Answer 4

1. Changing theme of Spring Tool Suite without downloading any plugin. (For using Darkest Dark Theme see option 2)

First, go to

Window > Preferences

Then in Preferences dialog go to

General > Appearance

after that select *Dark in the dropdown for Theme, after that click on Apply, then on Apply and Close

Then restart STS once so your STS will look like this

2. Changing theme of Spring Tool Suite by downloading Darkest Dark plugin.

First go to

Help > Eclipse Marketplace...

Then in Eclipse Marketplace dialog search for Darkest Dark and then click on Go.

After that from the search results install the plugin named Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle

After that with default options selected click on Confirm

Then accept the license and click on Finish

Then let the software install

After installation completes click on Restart in the pop up

Then in the welcome screen click on Next

After that select Darkest Dark Theme and click on Next

Then let the STS launch with Darkest Dark Theme

Then click on Continue in the Tweak the Workbench dialog

Then your STS will look like this

Baluchi

Answer 5

You can go to Marketplace Eclipse and search for Darkest Dark Theme. As the name says a pretty cool dark theme.

Lyublin