Sidebar buttons used a larger radius than the rest of the IDE, and their tooltips opened below the button, often over neighbouring stripe buttons. Stripe buttons now use a 6px radius, and their tooltips open toward the inside of the window, with a dark background in light themes. Siblings covered: every theme and plugin theme falls back to its base tooltip tokens, long tooltips flip correctly at the window edge, the shortcut hint stays readable, and the More button gets the same tooltip. Co-authored-by: PLZY <[email protected]>
Harbor Night
An OpenIDEA theme plugin, Harbor Night: a dark theme with slate surfaces, a
teal accent and a warm syntax palette. It is also where new themes start:
openidea-plugin new --template theme copies its theme files, or copy this
folder. Full documentation, the token reference and porting guides are in
docs/plugins/themes.md.
harbor-night/
├─ plugin.toml # manifest: id, name, version, the theme files
└─ themes/
├─ harbor-night.theme.json # UI colours, every themeable token, grouped like tokens.css
└─ harbor-night.scheme.json # editor colour scheme: syntax, editor, ANSI colours
A theme plugin is data only: no code, no WebAssembly, no build step.
Make your own
- Run
openidea-plugin new --template theme, or copy the folder, for example to~/openidea-themes/my-theme. - In
plugin.toml, changeid(lowercase,a-z 0-9 - _ .),name,description,authorsand the two paths. - Rename the theme files. In the theme file, set
id,nameandkind("dark"or"light", the built-in base for anything you leave out). - Edit the colours. Each key is a CSS variable from
src/styles/tokens.css, and the reference in the docs gives the Islands Dark and Light values. Comments (//,/* */) are allowed. Delete a line to keep the built-in value.
Porting an IntelliJ theme? pnpm theme:import-intellij <file.theme.json> [file.icls] --out <dir>
in the OpenIDEA repository generates a package in this layout.
Package and install
The folder is the package. To share it, publish the folder as a Git repository or a zip that users extract.
- In OpenIDEA open Settings › Plugins, click the gear menu and choose
Install Plugin from Disk… (or run the Install Plugin from Disk…
action), then pick the folder that contains
plugin.toml. - Select the plugin in the Installed tab and press Apply next to the theme.
- Use Default Theme in the same place goes back to the built-in theme.
Iterate
Put (or symlink) the folder in <project>/.openidea/plugins/ of an open
project. It loads as a dev plugin, and Reload in Settings › Plugins (or
the Reload Plugins action) re-reads your edits without reinstalling. Invalid
JSON or values are reported in Settings › Plugins with the file and line.
Licence
Harbor Night is part of OpenIDEA (Apache-2.0). When you port someone else's theme, keep its licence and credit its authors.