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When i use an IDE or editors in general, I usually quick start by darkening the background color and making the general font lighter. In eclipse i find this is very unintuitive. There is no such thing as the general font, instead, one has to change color for a myriad of language specific idioms via the 'Syntax Coloring' menu. While not a blocking point to using eclipse, i think this is really annoying on a new installation. It would be a lot simpler to provide this in the font menu or alongside the coice for background color.
(In reply to Vincent Thomasset from comment #0) > When i use an IDE or editors in general, I usually quick start by darkening > the background color and making the general font lighter. Why don't you do this on the OS level then? Eclipse uses the system defaults to set the editor font family, size fg and bg colors. Unfortunately the font dialog does not allow to set colors on all operating systems. We would have to introduce new default colors that editors could use as a start. And since we don't control all the editors, this would probably be even more confusing/inconsistent. Another approach would be to also display the existing editor color options on the the 'Colors and Fonts' preference page.
