I have modified my eclipse colour theme to my liking but just cant seem to develop in peace because I keep having to squint and stare at the screen for certain elements. The colour default scheme is simply pathetic!
I have no idea what these elements are called and hence instead of attempting to describe them I have attached screenshots. How can I modify these elements to make them more humanly readable?
That color is controlled by your gtk theme, which is "Ambiance" by default in Ubuntu.
As a quick workaround to this problem, you can try changing the color to a darker one. To do this, open a terminal and use the below command
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-color-scheme "bg_color:#D7D7D7;"
The color value is a darker one than the default. You can use your own color value. To generate hex value of color, you can use agave 
.
Also, you may want to change the theme to a darker one. I personally like the "greybird" theme included in the Lubuntu. You can install the theme by using this command:
sudo apt-get install shimmer-themes
or using this link shimmer-themes
After installation, change the theme using Ubuntu-tweak:
Hope this will make eclipse humanly readable again. :)
humanly readable, As We are human being and also "Ubuntu for human being" I hope this will soon be fixed. :) – Anwar Sep 18 '12 at 08:26