Most people is familiar with Xcode theme support for the text editor. You simply open Preferences, Fonts & Colors and duplicate
an existing theme (or create a new one from scratch). Xcode editor themes have the .dvtcolortheme
extension.
However, there's some support for themeing Xcode itself (fonts, gradients, colors). Xcode loads the default theme from
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Default.dvttheme
.
.dvttheme
files are simply XML files that conform to an undocumented schema. If you want to modify any of the settings in
Default.dvttheme
, instead of modifying the bundle resource file you can instruct Xcode to load your custom .dvttheme
from
wherever you want: