Description Lars Vogel 2014-10-31 09:52:49 EDT

Lots of people complain that the dark theme provided by platform.ui does not allow to style the table header. 

Fabio Zadrozny from Liclipse was so kind to contribute a solution with us which allows to style them via a custom CSS handler, similar to the following lines:

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With the code I passed you previously (https://gist.github.com/fabioz/59b06c519f505d37fcfb), what needs to be done is adding to plugin.xml:

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.core.propertyHandler">
      <handler
            adapter="org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.dom.WidgetElement"
            composite="false"
            handler="com.brainwy.liclipse.theme.e4.WidgetProperlyHandler">
         <property-name name="liclipse-tree-fix">
         </property-name>
      </handler>
   </extension>


setting the 'liclipse-tree-fix' property for the trees/tables and probably creating new properties for those colors (for me I get them from the color theme plugin, but given that it's not available in bare Eclipse you may need to create new colors for that -- i.e.: not all users want the color in the tree selection the same as in the editor selection).

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To have a standard property to define the background color I suggest that SWT adds this API. This way, we in platform can implement a workaround until Bug 384906 is completely solved. For Bug 384906, this API is also required.