Apparently, the Eclipse developers were kind enough to leave us an easy way out:
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From the
Windowmenu, selectPreferences. -
Expand the
Generalcategory in thePreferencesdialog tree. -
Click on the
Appearancesub-category. -
On the left side of the window, a
Themedrop-down menu will appear - click on it. -
Select
Classicin theThemedrop-down menu. -
Most important: you need to restart Eclipse after that, even though no hint to that effect appears.
This setting is mentioned in several blog posts, which for some reason I could not find until I started using terms such as "awful" and "ugly" in Google. It seems that I was not the only one to find the new theme unbearable...