Summary: | Project Explorer and Package Explorer tree view selection unreadable | ||||||||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Exuvo _ <exuvo> | ||||||
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox> | ||||||
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |||||||
Severity: | major | ||||||||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | aobuchow | ||||||
Version: | 4.17 | ||||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | PC | ||||||||
OS: | Windows 7 | ||||||||
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Description
Exuvo _
2020-11-04 20:17:18 EST
Created attachment 284674 [details]
With darkest dark theme addon
IIRC there was a workaround fix for this bug on Windows 7 which has since been removed, since it does not occur on Windows 10 (and Eclipse is not supported on Windows 7 anymore I believe). I might be wrong however, and would appreciate if someone can confirm this. There's some relevant discussion on this issue here: https://github.com/AObuchow/Eclipse-Spectrum-Theme/issues/123 as a Spectrum Theme user had encountered the same issue. I cannot see any texts about supported windows versions on the eclipse download pages https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ or the installation guide https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation, where does it say that? If win7 is dropped then I suggest adding a warning popup when trying to select the dark theme on windows 7 then to say "OS no longer supported, last working version is 2020-03". Do i understand correctly that the new eclipse requires you to use a dark OS theme if you want to use the dark theme in eclipse? (In reply to Exuvo _ from comment #4) > I cannot see any texts about supported windows versions on the eclipse > download pages https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ or the > installation guide https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation, where does > it say that? I personally haven't been able to find an official statement that Eclipse is no longer supported for Windows 7 (although I just checked briefly). However, I can confirm that Windows 7 is no longer officially supported by Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-happens-when-windows-7-support-ends-5c740944-b787-a89e-ad23-69ec848ae763#:~:text=After%2010%20years%2C%20support%20for,including%20security%20updates%2C%20from%20Microsoft. Thus, it seems Eclipse on Windows 7 is transitively not supported. > > If win7 is dropped then I suggest adding a warning popup when trying to > select the dark theme on windows 7 then to say "OS no longer supported, last > working version is 2020-03". Agreed, or perhaps in general a popup (that can be disabled) should appear upon launching Eclipse on Windows 7 informing the user that it is no longer supported. However, I think updating the Eclipse download page or the installation wiki to note about lack of windows 7 support would be a better fix. > Do i understand correctly that the new eclipse requires you to use a dark OS > theme if you want to use the dark theme in eclipse? I don't think this is the case although I haven't tested it personally (I use a dark theme on Windows 10, but I use Linux as my primary OS). From what I understand, there was a limitation in Windows 7 that prevented the toggle arrows from appearing white when using the dark theme, thus a workaround was made. These workarounds have now since been removed. Again, if someone wants to add some extra info it would be appreciated - I'm not the most knowledgable about support for Eclipse on Windows. |