Matrix’ish Eclipse theme

Sometimes reading black on white concentrated for hours makes your eyes hurt. Yet for some reason pretty much every code-editor, I’ve ever used, had black on white as the default setting?.. Well lately I’ve been doing a lot of Java-coding (school stuff), and have been introduced to yet another black on white coding-environment – Eclipse.

So while I was stuck on some code, I figured what better way to procrastinate than to change the theme to white on black, right? And so I dug around, soon realising that changing the theme in Eclipse is not for the faint-hearted. I did it though, and it looks awesome! Luckily it’s possible to copy a couple of well-hidden files from deep within Eclipse, and so I figured I’d share mine, so you can enjoy this theme as well:

Guide for OS X (I’m guessing it’s not that different in Windows or Linux):

The files, you’re looking for are hidden, so the easiest way to access them is through the terminal with a command similar to this:

open /Users/[insert user]/Documents/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings

This is where mine are, but your settings are probably different, so change it accordingly.

If you did the above correctly, you should see a Finder-window with a bunch of files all starting with “org.eclipse”.

Replace 2 of these with the files from this zip and restart Eclipse – this should change your theme :)