Aloha Color Theme for NetBeans 6

UPDATE: Go get the new version for NB 6.1 here.

UPDATE: I’ve started looking into updating the theme for NB 6.1 (due out in a few days) I’ll create a new post and link to the download once it’s complete. Thanks for your patience.

I’ve been giving NetBeans 6 a try lately and I’m enjoying it very much… but I really like the color themes available for TextMate. I’m not a big fan of the defaults and I wanted something different… so I started looking. The Ruby Dark Pastels theme by Jerrett Taylor comes with a plugin download, I found this theme called Fade to Grey by Brasten Sager and then I stumbled upon this color theme by Carmelyne Thompson. The theme Carmelyne created was what I was looking for with a few tweaks. And since I do work with a lot of different file types, I wanted to make sure most if not all the file types held the color theme. So after a few tweaks and writing something to help me create my NetBeans Module file… here are the results:

Aloha Color Theme for NetBeans

Aloha Look

Ruby

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XML

C

Java

NetBeans Go get NB 6.1 and use the theme on this page instead!!! NetBeans

After the download, open NetBeans and go to Tools > Plugins. In the Download tab, add the AlohaTheme.nbm and install. To use it, just select it from the Fonts & Colors profile “Aloha.”

I can’t get the CSS to stop painting the keywords neon blue and it can be a little hard on the eyes… if anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know.

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21 Responses to “Aloha Color Theme for NetBeans 6”

  1. Fantastic, Mike!

    The CSS keyword color problem is a known problem - in particular, it’s issue 121847.

    Tor Norbye said this on January 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am

  2. Nice work!

    I found the dark-pastels theme to be close-but-no-cigar as well.

    Matt Harnaga said this on January 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

  3. @Matt - I like Jerrett and Brasten’s themes as well. But I really like the colors Bryan Veloso used for this blog’s theme “ChaoticSoul” so I wanted my IDE to use them. It’s all about choice!

    Mike McKinney said this on January 25th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  4. Nice! I’ll have to give it a try, looks good! I can’t wait for 121847 to be fixed though

    jerrett said this on January 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

  5. Terrific!
    The theme has been installed and seems nice.

    John said this on January 30th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

  6. About Netbeans CSS color problem - it can be fixed by:
    1. find org-netbeans-modules-languages-css.jar module in “…\NetBeans 6.0\ide8\modules\” folder
    2. extract files from it (as from zip archive)
    3. find file CSS.nbs in extracted files
    4. edit CSS.nbs “COLOR:key:{}” section - set “foreground_color:” to desired value
    5. zip all files back to org-netbeans-modules-languages-css.jar module, copy it back in “…\NetBeans 6.0\ide8\modules\” folder

    …or you can try my patched module from http://uploaded.to/?id=98ksqp

    Dimaa said this on January 31st, 2008 at 11:20 am

  7. Fail. Why not just copy the damn theme (its called vibrant ink)? Why change it?

    Is it copyrighted or something? W…T…F?

    Anyways… good job on the theme. I’ll try to hack it up so its correct and reupload it.

    jc said this on February 1st, 2008 at 3:25 am

  8. @jc - Thanks for the tip on Vibrant Ink, didn’t know it was out there. I mentioned my reasons for making this theme and the colors are definately different (they mimic those found on this site.) A NetBeans port of Vibrant Ink is a great idea. Please link to your version when you complete it!

    Mike McKinney said this on February 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 pm

  9. Great work. I was looking for something like this since I use netbeans for rails development. Thank you!

    Patch said this on February 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

  10. Thank you! Its very nice. What font do you use?

    Michal Hantl said this on February 11th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

  11. Thanks Michal… the theme uses Monaco, but if you are on windows you may want to use Lucida Console or google for windows version of the font.

    Mike McKinney said this on February 11th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

  12. […] was looking for a nice color scheme that doesn’t bombard me with to many rays. I found this scheme that claims to be a textmate styled scheme for netbeans. It works for […]

    codevader » Blog Archive » Netbeans Color Scheme said this on March 5th, 2008 at 5:24 am

  13. Whoa cool. We love colors :) I like how you’ve tweaked it further. Looks really good.

    Carmelyne Thompson said this on March 12th, 2008 at 1:14 am

  14. Thanks for Aloha, it’s great, but why are Controller Names black on black and almost absolutely illegible?

    Dave said this on March 13th, 2008 at 6:32 am

  15. You are using NB 6.1beta. This theme was made for NB 6.0 and works as you see in the images above… I downloaded NB 6.1 and had the same issues (changes in NB are drastic on all fronts, those folks are busy bees).

    I plan to update the theme when I get a chance and create an nbm compatible with the changes in 6.1.

    Mike McKinney said this on March 13th, 2008 at 10:05 am

  16. i would really appreciate an update to nb 6.1! please find some time, because this is the greatest white on black theme for nb!

    gauda said this on March 18th, 2008 at 7:00 am

  17. An update for 6.1 beta would be fantastic. Thanks!

    ncwil said this on March 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  18. Thanks for all the effort!

    CV said this on April 7th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

  19. + 1 for 6.1 :)

    mil said this on April 10th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

  20. +1 for 6.1 !!! it’s in RC already…

    61 user said this on April 16th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

  21. 6.1 is now final. And it’s much better than 6.0, I don’t know why anyone would want to use 6.0 anymore

    nethasbeans said this on April 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

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