A while back I discovered the Dark Expression Blend Theme for Visual Studio and having been using it ever since. Jealous while working in Eclipse one day, I decided to follow suit and prettify the daily Java experience. Thanks to the Color Theme plugin, it was all too easy. Without further ado: http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=4103
Naturally the mapping is imperfect—due to inherent limitations of the two IDEs, there are some differences. For example, Visual Studio does not offer a style option for inherited methods, but Eclipse does; so I decided to apply the same color as interfaces, which makes it easy to spot API consumption. Also, while Eclipse does support background colors for some constructs, string literals do not fall into this category and so we lose some of the richness in presentation compared to the Visual Studio version.
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