Themes for Dart Editor

Question

Right now, the white background is killing my eyes, as it's a looong dark night. Is it possible to change the theme (to something darker) from the Dart Editor (v 0.1)? What about picking a background colour and syntax highlighting?

Filippo Vitale · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-05T23:18:21.323

Yes, it is possible and I have just verified this quickfix for a darker background on the Dart Editor Version 0.1.0.201204042313:

Close the Dart Editor
Open with your favorite editor the file: <DART-INSTALL-DIR>\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs
Change the content

from:

 #Fri Apr 06 20:28:37 EST 2012
 eclipse.preferences.version=1
 overviewRuler_migration=migrated_3.1

to:

#Fri Apr 06 20:28:38 EST 2012
AbstractTextEditor.Color.Background.SystemDefault=false
AbstractTextEditor.Color.Background=208,208,223
eclipse.preferences.version=1
overviewRuler_migration=migrated_3.1

Start your Dart Editor and the background should look like: enter image description here

You may create a "complete theme" simply adding more properties to the org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs and org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs files.

I strongly suggest you to have a look inside the "Eclipse Preferences (EPF)" sample files of the project http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/

I haven't tried yet but in theory you could manually install the plugin Eclipse Color Theme.

Update 06-Dec-2012

The new Dart Editor Build 0.2.7.1_r15699 supports theming for both editor and panels. This "trick" is not needed anymore, please customize your theme using Preferences --> Visual Theme enter image description here

yeah it works. now we need only for the console and left project windows too :) — Gero, Apr 10 '12 at 20:23
Have you seen this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2439062/81444 ? I'm sure there should be another way to achieve it... — Filippo Vitale, Apr 10 '12 at 22:29