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I installed DevStyle specifically because of the weird white scrollbars in the Eclipse Dark theme, so I was disappointed when Dark Dark didn’t seem to change that (despite the screencaps). See attached Preferences settings and resulting workbench. Is there something else I need to do to enable dark scrollbars?
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
Version: Oxygen.3a Release (4.7.3a)
Build id: 20180405-1200MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
You are absolutely correct that one benefit of DevStyle is fixing scrollbars, primarily on Windows. On Mac, you do get a well-styled scrollbar experience as long as your scrollbars are also configured to hide. You can control this behavior via Mac’s System Preferences:
Tim, thanks so much for your prompt response. Alas, I already have scrollbar auto-hide enabled. I also just upgraded to the prerelease version, but that did not resolve the issue.
Any other suggestions?
Odd, the screenshots really look like that Eclipse was started with that option being Always.
To confirm, what version of macOS are you running currently? There is also a case for maybe 10.10 or earlier where the scrollbars don’t auto-hide. Given I see Handoff in your pref page, I can’t think that’s the case.
From: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph25290?locale=en_US
Automatically based on mouse or trackpad: Scroll bars are shown depending on the mouse or trackpad you’re using.
If your device allows gestures, scroll bars are hidden until you start scrolling. Otherwise, they’re visible.
Perhaps you have a device configured that doesn’t support gestures? You could try switching to the option for
When Scrolling… Odd!I’m running High Sierra (10.13.6), so latest and greatest. I’m using a boring logitech wireless mouse (M185).
If I change the preference to “…When scrolling”, things behave as expected, using themed scrollbars vs native. I’m not sure I want that as a system-wide behavior, though — it’s nice to have scrollbars visible as an indicator of buffer size.
Unsurprisingly, if I change it “…Always”, the white native scrollbars appear.
phalverson,
I’m afraid that it looks like there is not much that can be done about the issue. I see exactly the same behavior in all applications and the white background is also seen with standard eclipse themes as well as other applications. It looks like the next release of macOS does better on dark themes, so we can take a look at what more can be done, when that comes out soon.
No worries, sounds like it was a lot of work just getting as far as you have. Thanks for looking into it. I look forward to continued enhancements.
peter
