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Created attachment 284673 [details] With built in dark theme Just installed new eclipse 2020-09 (4.17.0) and with dark mode the project tree views are unusable. The arrows are black on black, the selected item is white on white or white on light blue, both unreadable. Found no apperance setting to fix the selection color. Tried marketplace addon Darkest Dark Theme and that had the same problem (i use that one in my older eclipse 2019-09 which has no problems). Found a stackoverflow post with the same problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62872324/change-color-of-bullet-in-tree-view-in-eclipse and they say it started with eclipse 2020-06.
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.
