Eclipse SDK4: ugly perspective bar border - eclipse-plugin

I am migrating RCP app to Eclipse 4 . And I'm stuck with problem: perspective bar has really ugly bold borders, I can't understand why, frankly no idea.
If I disable perspective bar through IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer.setShowPerspectiveBar(false) there are no ugly borders.
Spent 2 days googling without any results.

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You will have to play around with CSS. I would start from adding a simple CSS file to the RCP App, and changing the color for the eclipse-perspective-keyline-color. See an example of a theme here (line 76).
Other possible solution: Hide the whole perspective switcher.
configurer.setShowPerspectiveBar(false);

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Could somebody point me to an example using the Carousel control? Which properties should I set in the xaml, what kind of item list should be behind it etc?
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OPTION B - Could write down in the answer a couple of code lines to insert a button and a text field with the usual "Hello World!".
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On launching the app, I get the page editing screen, as expected, with the Inspector, Components and Page Options tabs on the right hand side of the screen.
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Here is a screenshot - my project on the left, the demo site on the right.
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