# Your reason for not switching to the 2.x IDE ?

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**Category:** IDE 2.x\
**Created:** [October 8, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/your-reason-for-not-switching-to-the-2-x-ide/1176322 "2023-10-08T19:52:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![ptillisch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@ptillisch](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/ptillisch)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/your-reason-for-not-switching-to-the-2-x-ide/1176322/28 "2023-10-09T08:35:25Z")

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> [@zwieblum](#):
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> You are always stuck with whatever genius designer decided would be best for you.

Feel free to create your own theme then. There is some information about that here:

> [@Personal themes](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/personal-themes/1024606/2):
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> Hi @F6EEQ. Arduino IDE 2.x uses a completely different theme system than Arduino IDE 1.x, so none of the information about [the 1.x theme system](https://github.com/per1234/themetest#editing-the-arduino-ides-theme) is applicable in any way to Arduino IDE 2.x. Arduino IDE 2.x is built on the [Eclipse Theia IDE framework](https://theia-ide.org/), which allows it to use [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) themes. Table of Contents [Install a Pre-Made Theme](#install-a-pre-made-theme)[Find Theme](#find-theme)[Install Theme in Arduino IDE](#install-pre-made-theme-in-arduino-ide)[Make a Custom Theme](#make-a-custom-theme)[Generate VS Code Extension Template](#generate-vs-code-extension-template)[Design Theme](#design-theme)[Manually](#manually)[VS Code Theme Studio](#vs-code-theme-studio)[Install Theme in A…](#install-custom-theme-in-arduino-ide-1)

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