Eclipse's Package explorer background color follows windows theme. I want to change the color without changing windows' theme. Possible?

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Maybe a way to alter the colors locally (as in application dependant)?

A background color of eclipse is white, the same white of windows' active window background color. If I change the color on the theme, eclipse changes to the color.

I want to change this software's color without changing the whole theme (because then every program gets weird colors). Is this possible? I thought that maybe there was a way to apply different windows themes to different programs, or something.

I'm using windows XP, classic windows theme.

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I did some research and found that actualy it is posible to change all colors, but abit harder. there are two methods that I found so far.

first since eclipse is using OS themes, you can change your OS background settings, like folder background etc., or just change the whole theme if your using windows, but the downside is that all windowses will be same color, in linux and mac os it is also posible, but in different way, I did read it somewhere, but can't remember where :)

second creating a specific theme for eclipse, for example http://rogerdudler.github.io/eclipse-ui-themes/ or any other theme like google chrome etc.

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Install the theme from here as per the instruction in the github: https:// github.com/guari/eclipse-ui-theme

If you don't like the editor color theme, there are bunch of 'em here http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/

Combination of both just works like charm for me!

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