Is there a way to customize the IDE themes?
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I'm trying to customize the IDE themes, but I can't seem to find any options for it. Is there a way to do this?V
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Bond Han
Bad answer.
He did not ask how you can change a theme … but how to customize an existing one.
Opensource Thank you for the clarification. Please check: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/themes-getting-started.html
So if I install a theme and I want to change one tiny detail of it I have to develope a whole new theme plugin? Sounds flexible.
I understand your concern, however technically speaking even a tiny change of an existing theme makes it a different one given the current design. If you'd please let us know your thoughts with more details, please feel free to file a feature request in YouTrack. Thank you for your efforts in advance!
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues
Well, i've looked through 95% of all current dark themes and they all kind of suck in one way or another. I was able to customize the color scheme … but when it comes to like 2 colors, which is for some reason defined in a plugin rather than also through a similar color scheme … and we would not need installable themes, because they really do 99% of the work in the color scheme.
So now that I have a good color scheme, I am left with stuff like this:
I don't know about you, but I can not read that fucking color:
Is that red? I've seen this in other places as well.
Just probably should be possible to override as a user.
From what I i've seen themes basically just change some very basic UI styles. Do very little elsewhere. For some reason people pay for installing these themes when the color scheme comes for free basically.
The entire framework should be scrapped, and you should just introduce one plugin that reads all kinds of properties from a settings file like color scheme, and then all these plugins would be passee.
If one develops a theme of their own surely one can extract whatever is set in the theme from a settings dialog. Question is why Jetbrains hasn't done that.
How long does it take you to create a dark theme? How much extra to place the choosen colors in the settings dialog? Not much extra. Its just a refactoring step at the end.
Or just modify the two/three Intellij provided themes(plugins?), ligth, dark and darcula to provide such settings, and then all other plugins will have to do whatever pleases them.
I have created below ticket regarding this feature request, please feel free to add your comments there and upvote for it.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-174671/Ability-to-customize-all-properties-of-a-theme-in-UI-Settings-dialog