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Eclipse 3.1.0, CDT 3.0.0 I200507292328 Preferences -> C/C++ -> Editor -> Code Assist At the bottom, "Background for completion proposals" and "Foreground for completion proposals." In an actual completion window, there are three colors: background, foreground and highlight. The default background and foreground colors seem perfectly fine to me, and I'm only slightly tempted to change them. However, the highlight color, over which I have no control, is only slightly different from the background color. I find it uncomfortably difficult to see. I'm perfectly willing to be argued away from this, and I certainly see the awkwardness of providing the user with a knob to control every last color in the interface, but I think it might make sense to add a highlight color control here. Am I wrong?
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Not only Windows XP is affected by this problem. When using a Gnome theme with a dark highlight background colour, the default highlight foreground colour is still set to black. In other parts of the Eclipse environment, this automatically changes to white. As the code assist colour settings are currently limited to set the default background and foreground colours, I suggest one of the following two solutions: 1) For the highlighted line, the foreground colour is picked by Eclipse itself and set to the same colour used in other views for highlighted items 2) Two more configuration options are added to the code assist colour dialogue: highlight foreground and background. Initially, they are set to the same colours used in the other views of Eclipse for highlighted items.
