Bug 103163 - [preferences] ability to manually set a editor background color independent from default editor.
Summary: [preferences] ability to manually set a editor background color independent f...
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P5 enhancement with 4 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Text-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: usability
: 130635 332609 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2005-07-08 09:54 EDT by Christian Jäckel CLA
Modified: 2010-12-15 05:54 EST (History)
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Description Christian Jäckel CLA 2005-07-08 09:54:18 EDT 
With 3.0 (and before) there was the ability to set a editor background color 
different from default (text) editor with the preferences settings of the java 
editor's syntax coloring. This preference no longer exist in the UI with 3.1.
(By importing old 3.0 preferences the java editor specific background is 
applied.)
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2005-07-11 05:22:20 EDT 
There are no plans to bring this back (at least not for the Java editor, other
editor providers can decide otherwise).

If you still want to have a different color you can set it manually into the JDT
UI store. We also plan to publish an experimental preferences plug-in that
allows to fine-tune settings that are not in the Eclipse UI.
Comment 2 Christian Jäckel CLA 2005-07-11 06:19:36 EDT 
Well, setting it manually into the JDT
UI store only works for every immediate preference import. After Eclipse 
restart this setting is gone again.

/instance/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/AbstractTextEditor.Color.Background.SystemDefault=
false
/instance/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/AbstractTextEditor.Color.Background=0,0,0
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2005-07-11 06:30:49 EDT 
We currently remove it from the store on startup in order to migrate an old
workspace to the shared setting. We need to add some preference that allows to
override the shared ones.
Comment 4 Tom Hofmann CLA 2006-03-07 06:07:13 EST 
*** Bug 130635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Barry Andrews CLA 2006-03-07 08:25:33 EST 
Hmmmm... Removing functionality. There's a great idea.
Comment 6 Hermann Voßeler CLA 2006-08-05 17:45:13 EDT 
That's not only a toy, it's really usefull. You could have different
background for different Languages (e.g. Java, XML, JSP, JavaScript, CSS).
Really helps with Dynamic Web projects.

So please bring this feature back in some way! 

Thanks
Comment 7 Vladimir Grishchenko CLA 2006-12-20 16:26:32 EST 
+1, this was very useful.
Comment 8 Dani Megert CLA 2010-12-15 05:54:34 EST 
*** Bug 332609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***