How can I properly configure my Eclipse Luna dark theme?

Question

Eclipse Luna offers a dark color theme.

It's supposed to look like this:

On my system, it comes out like this:

Here's what I did:

1. Open Eclipse.
2. In Window → Preferences, set Appearance → Theme to Dark.
3. Close Eclipse. Restart OS. Open Eclipse.

This is a pretty fresh Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64-bit install.

I don't want to have to install the Eclipse color theme plugin. This should work out of the box.

Unlike others, my text field is fine, but my chrome is off. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

I'm using Mint 17 and I had to do four things after switching to Luna's dark theme do get it to look nice.

First I installed all gtk theme engines the repository got.

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-* gtk3-engines*

Second install a dark theme (Menu -> System Settings -> Themes), I choose 'Midnight'.

Third, I had to change some gtk settings under the 'Other settings' tab. For 'Controls' I choose 'Xfce-dusk' and 'Window borders' 'nightfall'. These settings might not be available if you don't install the gtk engines.

Fourth, in Eclipse I installed 'Eclipse Color Theme 0.14' from Eclipse Market place and choose 'Sublime Text 2'.

The result is rather striking, IMHO.

Answer 2

You may also have to change the desktop theme (some of the OS-level controls like scrollbars... are not CSS-able by us)...