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Tharaka Deshan
Tharaka Deshan

Reputation: 1396

Is there any way to customize Eclipse Look & Feel

I know that we can customize the appearance of editors, using

Window> Preferences > Appearance > Colors and Fonts

But can I go further with an inbuilt eclipse feature (Without using a third party plugin like Jeeeyul)

To make more clear, I want something like;

Something like, create/update a .css file in the eclipse installation is also fine.

Or else, develop a plugin using org.eclipse.ui.themes extension point is the only way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 430

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

You can change fonts and colours by modifying the existing Eclipse CSS files (or defining a new theme to avoid changing system files). The standard CSS files are in the org.eclipse.ui.themes plugin directory in the Eclipse installation.

Changing the shape of tabs would require writing a new tab renderer which you can specify in the CSS. For example in my RCP I use this:

.MPartStack 
{
  swt-tab-renderer: url('bundleclass://greg.music.ui/greg.music.ui.css.CTabRendering2');
  swt-unselected-close-visible: true;
  swt-shadow-visible: false;
  swt-mru-visible: false;
  swt-simple: true;
  swt-mru-visible: false;
  swt-minimize-visible: false;
  swt-maximize-visible: false;
}

This requires you to write a plugin.

Other, more extreme, changes to the UI can be made by using custom renderers for UI elements. This would require building a new Eclipse RCP product based on the normal Eclipse RCP and specifying a renderer factory using the rendererFactoryUri product property.

Upvotes: 2

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