Continue to read to learn about the improvements in the platform and in the second part, how plug-in developers can enable their Eclipse contributions for the dark theme.
With Eclipse Photon, we are shipping the best support for the dark theme so far. The releases following the initial release constantly improved the capabilities of the underlying CSS engine and the SWT toolkit to enhance the user experience. But the Eclipse platform team wanted to lay the foundation for improvements without the requirement to install external components to test and to drive these improvements.
In 2014, many of restrictions existed in the CSS and SWT styling of the Eclipse workspace and the result was not very usable. A few years ago, in 2014, Eclipse IDE announced that it will ship a default dark theme.
