Setting a dark color theme in Eclipse makes function tooltips unreadable

Question

I found that setting a dark color theme in Eclipse makes function popups unreadable.

This is probably easiest to describe with an image: alt text http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9503/blahi.gif

Any ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

The best solution I have found is to leave the eclipse in normal bright mode and use a screen level inverter.

In OSX, you can do command-shift-8 (I think the key combination) inverts the whole screen

on linux with compiz, it’s even better, you can make windows-n to darken windows selectively. (or windows-m to make the whole screen)

on windows, the only decent solution I found was a powerstrip, but it is only available for one year .. then he likes $ 30 or something like that.

then you can invert the screen, adjust the colors at the syntactic level to your liking, and you will go to the race, with cool shades.

Answer 2

If you run Eclipse on Ubuntu or in another environment where it uses GTK + themes, you can follow this guide to edit the Eclipse tooltips and autocomplete colors. Not an ideal solution, but it does the trick.