In this small blog post I’ll show how Eclipse looks like in Linux Gnome (Ubuntu 17.10) with a few Gnome themes.

First of all, the default Ubuntu theme, Ambiance, makes Eclipse look not very nice… see the icons, which are “packed” and “compressed” in the toolbar, not to mention the cut “Filter Files” textbox in the “Git Staging” view:

Numix has similar problems:

Adwaita, (the default Gnome theme) instead makes it look great:

The same holds for alternative themes; the following screenshots are based on Arc, Pop and Matcha, respectively:

So, in the end, stay away from Ubuntu default theme 😉