I need to use Eclipse for my work on the OpenMRS project as most developers use it.

I have been struggling not just to find a dark color scheme for Eclipse:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...me-for-eclipse
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9...es-for-eclipse

or even to write a plug-in to change colors:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...-g-java-editor
http://old.nabble.com/Theming-eclips...d29677631.html

The problem:
Even if one changes colors in General -> Appearance, one needs to change colors for each _new_ plugin.

Some colors do not seem to be changeable, even with gnome-color-chooser.

Finally, I found a simple solution.

This _does not_ result in a dark color scheme for Eclipse, but results in an Eclipse where I _can read_ all the text!

Applications->Accessories->Terminal
Code:
mkdir -p ~/bin
touch ~/bin/eclipse
chmod 755 ~/bin/eclipse
gedit ~/bin/eclipse
Copy and paste the following text _if you are using eclipse from repositories_:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/eclipse
If you have eclipse in another location (e.g., ~/opt/eclipse/eclipse), be sure to replace /usr/bin/eclipse with the relevant location.

Thank you!
Misha