Inverted color scheme (not only for editing window)

[Mareq]

Hello!

I am trying NetBeans and I must just say, the IDE is great! There are only two issues:

- when working on large project, NB is rather slow and freezing

- I did not found any way how to set up inverted color scheme



Since the first issue probably could not be solved easily, I will have to learn to live with it eventulally. Therefore my question is about the second issue. I want to set up inverted color scheme (black background, white text). This can be done for the editing window, but since I am using inverted color scheme throughout my whole system, white toolbars, menus, dialogs, etc. are burning my eyes and I would like to set inverted colors also for whole IDE, not only editing window. Is this possible?



To be complete, I am running Debian Lenny OS, OpenJDK Client VM, 1.6.0_0-b11, OpenJDK Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_0-b11 and NetBeans IDE 6.8 M2 (Build 200910071658).

[Tim Boudreau]

Post by Mareq
Hello!
- when working on large project, NB is rather slow and freezing
- I did not found any way how to set up inverted color scheme
Since the first issue probably could not be solved easily, I will
have to learn to live with it eventulally. Therefore my question is
about the second issue. I want to set up inverted color scheme
(black background, white text). This can be done for the editing
window, but since I am using inverted color scheme throughout my
whole system, white toolbars, menus, dialogs, etc. are burning my
eyes and I would like to set inverted colors also for whole IDE, not
only editing window. Is this possible?
To be complete, I am running Debian Lenny OS, OpenJDK Client VM,
1.6.0_0-b11, OpenJDK Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_0-b11 and NetBeans
IDE 6.8 M2 (Build 200910071658).

Here is a link to a plugin I created which tweaks the look and feel
defaults (will have a more dramatic effect if you run with
--laf javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
since some of the things it does, it does only for that look and feel).

It doesn't set up an inverted color scheme, but changes all the whites
to a mid-tone color (slightly tan, just because everything being gray
is a bit dull), and installs a matching theme for the editor and a few
other things. I wrote it after I bought a new monitor that was way
too bright, for the same reasons you mention.

http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=17958

This link will give you an idea of what it does - it's pretty simple
and consists only of a couple classes and various XML files to set up
the editor theme:
http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib/file/77ba980ded0b/tanui/src/org/netbeans/modules/tanui/Installer.java

-Tim