Visual Studio user here, and I generally just stick with the default theme. I'm used to black-text-on-white from so many other programs that it's no problem.
I like keeping the Solution Explorer pinned on the right-hand side, but I auto-hide all the other tool windows. The only toolbar I work with is the standard one, otherwise I'm absolutely boring and have nothing special.
Direct3D has need of instancing, but we do not. We have plenty of glVertexAttrib calls.
I use too many IDEs and editors, haven't had the time to configure them all! NetBeans, Eclipse, XCode, Emacs, TextMate, Sublime. I've styled up my terminals though, I only use two different terminal emulators so that's manageable. But then there's different Emacses on different machines, with or without color-theme.
Oh yeah, I use http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized when I get to it.
Edit: to make it a bit more interesting, my old setup:
I can't stand my IDE. I've spent more hours trying to get Eclipse to look nice than I care to count. I've downloaded plugins that theme part of Eclipse, but there's always spots they miss like the console tab or the text accidentally being the same colour as the background.
Did you tried MoonRise? https://github.com/guari/eclipse-ui-theme It's pretty good.
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I use Visual C# 2010 Express with a custom black-background theme I made for it. I love the look of the green comments on the black background, but I didn't want to make all the text green because I think I'd get sick of it kind of fast. Regions are bright yellow to stand out.
It's a pretty simple layout, with the error list and solution explorer and such popping up only when I put my mouse over their buttons. I like having a lot of space for the text editor.
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I'm another boring programmer -- I use Visual Studio with the default theme/colours, PhpStorm with the default theme, or Sublime Text with the default theme depending on what I'm working with at the time. If nothing else, I just don't have the time to play around trying to get editors set up with a different theme I would like, and I've never really had any issues with the defaults. :)
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Black on White, Scite and a console window.
I have however seen a nice look with a dark grey background (100% black makes you feel lost and so does 100% white). It had nice pastel colors. Red, blue, yellow. No green I think. Those colors along with Ruby were very nice.
Perhaps I should customize A bit.
They call me the Tutorial Doctor.
I love dark themes. To highlight the difference between VS and Eclipse I gave VS a more blue/cool tint, while Eclipse has the red/evil tint. (other programs like Notepad++ have the same look as VS)
Visual Studio 2010 with Selenitic setting theme:
IntelliJ IDEA (for Java / Android) with default dark theme:
I enjoy dark themes overall... maybe because I prefer working in a dark room so that monitor doesn't blind me
Some themes here really look good. I really like GlenDL blue theme, beautiful. On a side note, i just found this site, though i might share it.
Vanilla or close-to-vanilla Qt Creator.
I'd use a dark theme, but when using a dark theme and then needing to look up something on Google, the white background of regular websites in contrast to the dark IDE screen I was just looking at is blindingly intense.
