Bug 562237

Summary:	Windows high-contrast theme is outdated
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Rolf Theunissen <rolf.theunissen>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Lars.Vogel
Version:	4.15
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
See Also:	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=561217
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Description Rolf Theunissen

2020-04-16 16:03:28 EDT

The windows high-contrast theme is based on the win7 classic theme with minor changes. As a result, the look of the theme is very outdated. For instance it used the old style tabs.

Currently the high-contrast Eclipse theme is enforce when the Windows high-contrast mode is enabled. The user cannot change to another theme nor disable theming, see Bug 561217.

Note that Windows provides multiple high-contrast themes, for instance a black and a white theme.

Comment 1 Lars Vogel

2020-04-17 10:19:30 EDT

Can we delete the outdated theme?

Comment 2 Rolf Theunissen

2020-04-17 10:28:56 EDT

Without theming, I think that there are some usability issues. For instance, active tabs cannot be distinguish from non-active. Not sure if SWT should be updated to support the high-contrast case by default.

I don't know either, if one of the default themes works well with the high-contrast mode. That should be validated.
Also note that supporting selection of themes in high contrast mode is a request for a long time now, see Bug 226139 (though implementations have changed).