| How to fix bad color combinations? [message #1728826] |
Thu, 07 April 2016 12:49  |
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I know that Eclipse lets me change colors and fonts, but it's never been obvious what color property controls particular views, and what other views those same properties control.
My platform is CentOS7.2 and Ubuntu, both with Mars.2.
I include here a portion of a screenshot showing the "Javadoc" view on my CentOS box, which renders with a black background, with emphasized text in dark blue. This is almost unusable. I also see this same color combination in tooltips.
What color properties should I set to get a better rendering?
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| Re: How to fix bad color combinations? [message #1728847 is a reply to message #1728826] |
Thu, 07 April 2016 16:08  |
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On 04/07/2016 10:49 AM, David M. Karr wrote:
> I know that Eclipse lets me change colors and fonts, but it's never been
> obvious what color property controls particular views, and what other
> views those same properties control.
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> My platform is CentOS7.2 and Ubuntu, both with Mars.2.
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> I include https://ibin.co/2cxMHzKCypDi.png a portion of a screenshot
> showing the "Javadoc" view on my CentOS box, which renders with a black
> background, with emphasized text in dark blue. This is almost unusable.
> I also see this same color combination in tooltips.
>
> What color properties should I set to get a better rendering?
David,
Back when I ran under Lucid, I was using some brownish theme (under
Gnome), which came by default and had this self-same problem. I solved
it by switching my theme to ClearLooks. I know this all changed somewhat
when Unity came out, but I remember fixing it after I began to use that
as well (I put Unity behind me and run Mint/Cinnamon).
You might Google ClearLooks or just change the theme you use to a
different one.
Also, in Help -> Eclipse Marketplace, there's a plug-in called Eclipse
Color Theme (as I recall) that might be even easier to implement
especially if you don't want to muck with your system-wide desktop.
Best of luck.
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| Re: How to fix bad color combinations? [message #1729040 is a reply to message #1728952] |
Sun, 10 April 2016 00:09 |
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I ended up just manually changing the javadoc background color. I would have changed it to white, but it appears that I can't control the foreground color (it's also white), so I had to set the background color to something in between (chose a light green for now).
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