Minimal theme for Eclipse

Question

I've just been setting up a new 10" netbook and have just installed Eclipse for some development. Even on large screens I've found Eclipse's GUI to be very bulky and awkward to work with, and now on a small screen, the real estate left for actual coding is ludicrously small. Is it possible to apply a theme or skin to Eclipse to make it somewhat more minimal? Do you know any good themes for small screens?

Answer 1

i hope this will help - Extended VS Presentation plugin for Eclipse

Answer 2

If I maximize the editor (Ctrl-M) and use the Eclipse Full Screen Plugin I find Eclipse pretty usable on my 10" netbook.

Answer 3

You could try the somewhat more compact "Eclipse 2.1 Style Presentation" under General -> Appearance. In the same place, you can put "the Perspective switcher" on the left side.

But no theme can change the fact that a 10" screen simply is too small for a multi-view IDE like eclipse. Pretty much the only way to get around this is to use it more like a traditional editor, i.e. banish all views except the editor to the fastview bar and learn to use hotkeys as much as possible, e.g. Ctrl-O instead of a spearate outline view, F5, F6 and F7 instead of the icons in the debug view, etc.