Eclipse Skins

This plugin provides custom look and feels to Eclipse platform. Currently, there is only a presentation which mimics Visual Studio look and feel.

Prerequisites:

Eclipse 3.1 or 3.2 (last tested on 3.1.2 and 3.2 RC1).

WARNING: it is NOT working correctly in Eclipse 3.3 due to what seems to be a platform bug 208682.

I hadn't time yet to work in some workaround, so my apologies. I'll post in my blog when I got some solution.

Installation:

  1. Download the latest plugin jar file from SourceForge, and put it into <eclipse-installation-dir>\plugins directory.
  2. Restart Eclipse.
  3. Change the presentation: Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Current Presentation -> VS Improved Presentation.
  4. OK -> Restart Eclipse.

VS Improved Presentation

This presentation emulates the look and feel of Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, and provides some additional functions. 

 

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It is possible to change view/editor's colors/fonts by changing appearance settings (Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> VS Improved Presentation) or by plugging themes (in this case you will have to extract plugin manifest to get the constant names). 

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