Yesterday, I had an interesting call with a user of our source based editor. The user uses Eclipse on a large monitor with the Eclipse dark theme. He showed me that the contrast of the code completion is not high enough for him. Therefore, he always:

a) Opens the code completion
b) Uses tab to highlight the selection. With the highlight the contrast is much better

Here the comparison between:

Selected via tab:

Without tab selection:

Now, imagine the first selection on a large monitor with a high resolution. The contrast is simply not enough.

Here some examples how other IDEs render the selection without the need to press tab.

Intellij:

VS Code:

Both use a light blue which provides more contrast.

I would propose that the dark theme in Eclipse gets adjusted, too. Having to use tab feels like a hack/workaround. What do you think? @BeckerWdf

• [X ] I verified latest Integration Build of Eclipse SDK doesn't provide the feature.