SimpleBackground-Eclipse

This Eclipse Plugin allows to configure the background in Eclipse.

Under Window>Preferences>SimpleBackground, the following options are available:

• Background image: This option allows to set a background image.
• Background alpha: This option allows to customize the transparency of the main Eclipse Window.
• Background image alpha: This option allows to customize the transparency of the background image. This option is ignored if no background image is set.

Setup

Installation

• Select Help>Install New Software
  
• Click on Add Software Site
  
• In the dialog, enter a name and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danthe1st/eclipse-update-site/master/ as the URL
  
• Select the created Software Site under Work With and unselect Group Items by category
  
• Select SimpleBackground and click on Next
• Complete the installation process

Development setup

• Install Eclipse
• Make sure that Eclipse PDE is installed. It can be installed from the Eclipse Marketplace here:
  
• Make sure the m2e plugin is installed. It can be installed
• Clone this repository
• Import it as a Maven project including the module simplebackground-main (io.github.danthe1st.simple-background)
• Open the file plugin.xml with the Plug-in Manifest Editor in the simplebackground-main (io.github.danthe1st.simple-background) module and click on the run button on the top right in order to start Eclipse with this plugin.