
I had to use Apple's Digital Color Meter to get the colors correct since Atom apparently does not use native colors and I guess Eclipse does. One Dark syntax is the default syntax theme in Atom. MCUXpresso IDE article: Overview of MCUXpresso IDE v10.2.This theme is combination of Tomorrow Night and One Dark but mainly focused on being One Dark like.What do you think about these ‘dark’ themes? How important are they for you? Post a comment and let us know. I might be that not every Eclipse plugin has been tuned the details for using it with a dark theme, but for sure core Eclipse features and editing looks really nice with the Darkest Dark theme. So it can make working long hours with Eclipse even more comfortable. Using the theme is very handy especially if you feel that such a dark theme does hurt your eyes less.

If installing the Darkest Dark plugin fails, it might be because some parts of Mylyn are missing. To make a clean switch, I recommend to restart the IDE. It will ask me to restart the IDE, but I have found that for such a temporary switch this is not necessary. What I did is installing the part of Mylyn which comes with stock Eclipse Oxygen.įrom I have downloaded the latest release and used it with Help > Install New Software: To solve such a problem, you need to install at least a portion of Mylyn. To: .atform įrom: DevStyle (includes Darkest Dark Theme) 1.05291134 Software being installed: DevStyle (includes Darkest Dark Theme)ġ.05291134 (. At least at the time of writing this article, the Genuitec plugin somehow fails in case Mylyn is not installed (this might happen for other Eclipse distributions too).įor reference, the error I have received with no Mylyn installed is: Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Plugins should usually find and resolve their dependencies. That theme installs fine into ‘stock’ Eclipse Oxygen, but because a few plugins are missing in MCUXpresso IDE, I describe the necessary steps to have it installed. I have described in this article how to install the ‘Darkest Dark’ theme from Genuitec into the Eclipse based MCUXpresso IDE 10.2.

in MCUXpresso IDE there is a ‘dark’ them pre-installed: Tweaking MCUXpresso IDE Black Theme Outline

For vendor provided IDEs I recommend the built-in Themes, e.g. The problem is that it is a massive change of the underlying plugins, and this could cause many kind of issues up to problems that standard things crash or do not work.

💡 WARNING I don’t recommend any more to install the ‘Darkest Dark’ into Eclipse. Find out for yourself in the following article….
