https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670222
Bug ID: 1670222
Summary: Eclipse help browser unusable due to hard-coded font
size being unreadably small
Product: Fedora
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: eclipse
Severity: high
Assignee: mat.booth(a)redhat.com
Reporter: dwt(a)poltec.com
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: akurtako(a)redhat.com, andjrobins(a)gmail.com,
dbhole(a)redhat.com, ebaron(a)fedoraproject.org,
eclipse-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
jerboaa(a)gmail.com, jjohnstn(a)redhat.com,
lef(a)fedoraproject.org, mat.booth(a)redhat.com,
rgrunber(a)redhat.com
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Description of problem:
Eclipse help browser fonts are unreadably small
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
eclipse-platform-4.10.0-2.fc29.x86_64
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Eclipse
2. Help=>Help Contents
3. Help browser will open, note size of font in content pane
Actual results:
On a 1080p laptop screen the content font is < 1mm high
Expected results:
The help browser should be helpful and use a readably-sized font, and beyond
that should be user configurable like pretty much everything else in eclipse
Additional info:
This has actually been true since at least fedora 23, though back then I didn't
notice when using a lower resolution screen, and may not have had much occasion
to open the help browser anyway.
The help font resists being changed by any method; it's like it's hard-wired
into the code. Nothing under windows=>preferences=>colors and fonts seems to
have any effect. There are some promising-looking css files under ~/.eclipse,
but changing all the font sizes to something huge does nothing.
The only thing which touches this problem is to set the desktop (Mate) font
rendering dpi to something ridiculously high, like 200 or 300, but then
everything else is scaled up absurdly.
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