There was the possibility of changing the skin in earlier versions of Workbench and looking in FME 2015 it seemed to still exist.

See menu Tools > FME Options click Appearance

where the option to install a Theme. This option is missing in FME 2016 as is the <FME_Dir>\\res\\themes folder that existed in 2015. I'm guessing it is no longer possible even though the 2016 documentation still refers to it.

Yes, I think it was dropped for 2016. I've asked the docs team to remove the references to it from the help docs. Other than that, I don't think there's much I can suggest to the original question. I don't know why it was removed (probably just one of those things that I don't think anyone ever used) but you could contact our support team (safe.com/support) and someone would be able to ask the developers why and if there is any chance it would return.

Hi,

where can i find theme for FME ?

I would like to use a dark skin too ...

thanks

@mark2atsafe Was it ever discovered why they dropped it or still best to ask support?

I think it was just too much effort to keep functional and very few people were actually using it. But that was 8 years ago. It might (or might not) be easier to achieve now. If you want that functionality again, you could always add it to the Ideas on this site - or check if it’s there already - and add some comments about why it would be helpful to you.

The product managers do review all of the Ideas, so it would at least be a start to put the idea in their head.

Thanks @mark2atsafe.

I raised the idea but it was recently merged into an idea that was quite different. Unfortunately not likely to get the same traction in the new merged idea.