After seeing so many requests for a dark theme, I configured my own. It uses the "Black Eye" UserInterfaceSetting and a matching colorscheme I configured for the rest of the window.

I have not found anywhere it looks strange or where you cant read the text. **Edit The Menu Customizer has some troubles with text in selected fields not being readable...

I hope someone finds good use for it :)

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This method will keep your current settings and add dark theme ontop (SOOO many thanks to Georgeto for this alternative method! Awesome work man!)

1. Go to Settings -> Settings and select the Advanced Settings category from the list on the left.
2. Enter LookAndFeelTheme into the search field.
3. Only the setting GraphicalUserInterfaceSettings: Look and Feel Theme should remain. Set its value to BLACK_EYE.
4. Go to File -> Backup -> Backup all settings and make a backup of your JDownloader settings.
5. Make a copy of the backup, because we are going to modify it in the next step.
6. Open the backup with the zip archiver of your choice (e.g. 7-Zip).
7. Copy the content of the config folder into the opened backup. If asked, confirm overwriting exisiting files. (laf is the dark theme, menus_v2 is the toolbars)
8. Save the modified backup, if your archiver does not to that automatically.
9. Go to File -> Backup -> Restore Settings and choose the modified backup.
10. JD2 will restart now.

Now you got a Dark theme for JD2!

If you want a custom theme (our edited BlackEye for example)

1. Go to pathtoyourjdownloaderinstall\libs\laf
2. In this example, we rename syntheticaBlackEye.jar to syntheticaBlackEye.jar.bak (you could edit any theme you want, but you have to use the exact name of the theme you replace. This time, I edited the Blackeye)
3. Paste our edited syntheticaBlackEye.jar here
4. Restart JD2

Strange thing I found, if a pasted a new theme.jar file here, with its own name, JD2 could not find it in its list of themes. Anybody know where the file containing the theme list is?

• Main Dark theme conf
• Reorganized Toolbars
• Green Download Progress bar
• (soon to be released) "Flat and Unglossy" style buttons (currently: Beta branch)

Download tab

Linkgrabber tab

Settings page

(Thanks to elliotttate for this part!) To get the top bar to show up with the dark theme, you'll also need to run this in terminal: defaults write org.jdownloader.launcher NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance 0

Downloads

Linkgrabber

Green Progressbar