Planet Themes

Collection of light and dark Eclipse themes, inspired by planets of the Solar System!

_{Left to right: the Neptune, Pluto and Moon themes!}

:moon: Features at a glance

Three themes are currently available:

• Moon: familiar-looking but not an actual planet. Light-grey, by and large sticks to Eclipse's classic color scheme.
• Neptune: dark blue theme with some red reflections from the distant sun.
• Pluto: not much light reaches this distant dwarf planet, leading to a resolutely dark theme. The presence of purple has yet to be explained by astronomers.

A few words to summarise the planetary ambitions:

• compact: few borders, less visual artifacts, and hidden buttons.
• readable: easy on the eyes with low glare, balanced contrasts and an integrated editor font with programming ligatures.
• outstanding: not a revolution, but hopefully a nice twist to the traditional Eclipse look and feel.

Check out what's new in the latest releases!

:cd: Plugin installation

Note that all themes require Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) or more recent.

You can download and install the plugin via the Eclipse Marketplace, or simply drag the below button to your running Eclipse workspace:

Alternatively, use the following update site: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PyvesB/eclipse-planet-themes/updatesite. Note that this link will give an error when opened in a browser, but will be handled correctly by Eclipse.

Once installed, open Eclipse's preferences, navigate to General -> Appearance and select the planet of your choice in the Theme dropdown. Restart Eclipse and enjoy your new theme!

:star: Support and feedback

Building themes is hard work. Something isn't to your taste? Thought of a cool idea? Found a problem or need some help? Simply open an issue!

Find the project useful, fun or interesting? Star the repository by clicking on the icon on the top right of this page!

:computer: Code contributions

Want to improve the existing planets or add a new one? Contributions are more than welcome, open a pull request and share your CSS!

Setting up your own working copy of the project is easy:

• Download the RCP and RAP Developers version of Eclipse.
• Fork the repository by clicking on the Fork icon on the top right of this page and clone it locally.
• In Eclipse, go to File -> Import... -> General -> Existing Projects into Workspace.
• In the Select root directory field, indicate the location where you checked out the planet-themes repository.
• Ensure Search for nested projects is enabled, select all projects in the Projects field and click Finish.
• Open planet-themes-targetplatform.target and click Set as Active Target Platform.
• You're ready to go! You can now either launch an instance of Eclipse running the plugin by right-clicking on the plugin project and selecting Run As -> Eclipse Application, or you can export a plugin archive file by selecting Export -> Deployable plug-ins and fragments.

:balance_scale: License and acknowledgements

Planet Themes are licensed under Eclipse Public License - v 2.0.

Fira Code (Open Font License) is being used as the editor font, many thanks to Nikita Prokopov and other contributors!