Dark theme with real black background
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Right now we have darcula dark theme which is great however it doesn't have a real black background, which is super nice for the eyes (especially on OLED displays). There's also a high contrast theme but it's just a joke. I know I can change the background to real black for the editor but it would be nice to have it across the all IDE. Could you please consider adding a variation of darcula theme with the real black background. Thank you.
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Hello,
You could set it manully or load custom scheme. See suggestions in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37295220/how-to-set-black-background-in-intellij-idea
Yes, but as I mentioned black editor background isn't the same as a black IDE theme, a sidebar and a navigator may take a significant part of the screen and they won't be black. Also bars and headers. The idea behind my proposal is to decrease (or remove completely in case of OLED display) the emittance of light from any backgrounds, thus remove extra eye strain.
Custom UI themes are added in 2019 version: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-68337, http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/reference_guide/ui_themes/themes_intro.html
I agree, this is one of the things currently missing in IntellIJ. By comparison, the Slack Dark mode is significantly darker than Darcula.
For those who may still be interested, I created one myself (still in review by Jetbrains, but you can install it manually).
https://github.com/ahmed3elshaer/IntelliJ-True-Black-Theme.
please let me know if this is what you are looking for :)