Re: Dark theme: recommended

[Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx>]

One of the biggest problems using the default dark theme in 9.6 was the 
screen and report designer tools. It was absolutely impossible to read a 
large chunk of the Properties section. This is something that I see they 
have resolved in 9.8. However, I still recommend Darkest Dark because 
not all of base Eclipse follows the default Dark theme. Snippets will 
still be in pure white. Darkest Dark is the only thing I have found that 
will truly make all of eclipse go dark.

On VS Code I'm using a high contract theme, and I do the same in 
PyCharm. Makes PyCharm really dark and easy to use.

J


On 5/1/23 13:58, x y wrote:
> In an earlier post, Jason Olson mentioned the "Darkest Dark" plug-in.
> Instead, I tried  Window|Preferences|General|Appearance|Enable
> theming|Theme:Dark.  WOW!
>
> The result--colored tokens on a black background--makes for much better
> readability and IMO far better than the "Rational IDE"/"Classic" default
> theme. Works in 9.6 and 9.8.
>
> RDi's default theme may be the reason people try it and roll back to SEU.
> "Green screen" is a dark theme as are SEU, SDA, RLU, and the command
> line--it's what people are used to.
>
> Yes, most web pages have dark text on a white background but the nature of
> the content is usually far different and the method with which the content
> is processed differs as well.  Would tokenizing and coloring text improve
> comprehension or uptake speed?  Dunno (it would make a terrific PhD
> dissertation).  With most text, you can miss "noise" words but still have
> high comprehension.   With code, every character counts, and sometimes
> spaces too.  A dark background makes colors stand out and those colors
> promote understanding the code more effectively.
>
> If you've used Visual Studio or VS Code, what's the default theme?  Asking
> for a friend.