Have you tried changing Eclipse Color Theme? Install Eclipse Dark and Other Themes

As a Java developer I use Eclipse IDE everyday. It’s been almost ~12 years I started working on Java and Eclipse. Personally and professionally I love building high scale Java Enterprise softwares.

To be honest, I never used color theme in Eclipse before until recently I saw it on one of my colleagues macbook. I looked from little far and it was amazing, the theme he chose was saw pleasant to eye.

So far I have performed so many Eclipse optimization like increase memory usage in Eclipse, configure Bitbucket and Eclipse, etc. But last week I tried installing Eclipse color theme at my end and so far loving it. I would suggest you to give it a try. Here are detailed steps on how to set it up correct way.

Let’s get started:

Step-1

• Go to Eclipse
• Click on Help
• Click on Install New Software...

Step-2

• Click on Add
• Provide Name and Location URL: http://eclipse-color-theme.github.com/update

Step-3

• Select Eclipse Color Theme from selection
• Click Next
• Click Install
• Restart Eclipse

Step-4

• Go to Eclipse -> Home
• Click Preference
• Search for color
• Select Color Theme
• Choose your favorite theme
• Click Apply

And you are done. Hope you like your new Eclipse theme. Let me know if you have any other tips for Eclipse which I could use.