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Bug 106300

Summary:

[Help] Adjust relative font sizes in standard help/documentation

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Jan Ploski <jpljpl>

Component:

User Assistance

Assignee:

platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

maxime_daniel

Version:

3.2

Target Milestone:

---

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Default font sizes - tiny main text font, menu font ok.	none
Increased font size - main text now readable, menu font too large.	none

Description Jan Ploski

2005-08-07 08:02:43 EDT

Fonts in Eclipse's Help in Mozilla/Firefox under Linux have wrong relative 
sizes. The main text font is too small in general (with standard browser 
settings) and, more importantly, too small compared to the menu font.

Mozilla offers the option to adjust the font size globally. When I use this 
option, the main text becomes readable, however the menu text becomes too big 
and clipped. In the effect, I have to switch font sizes forth and back when 
using help, which is quite annoying. I know that font settings are controlled by 
documentation authors and cannot be standardized, but I hope that at least 
Eclipse's own documentation can be updated to use reasonably sized fonts for all 
supported platforms. The main text font should never be smaller than the menu 
font (it could be larger than it, though).

See attached screenshots.

Comment 1 Jan Ploski

2005-08-07 08:03:47 EDT

Created attachment 25817 [details]
Default font sizes - tiny main text font, menu font ok.

Comment 2 Jan Ploski

2005-08-07 08:05:19 EDT

Created attachment 25818 [details]
Increased font size - main text now readable, menu font too large.

Comment 3 Maxime Daniel

2006-05-19 04:46:11 EDT

The aspect seems unchanged in 3.2RC4.
Also, whatever is decided in terms of relative sizes, the fact that the upper part's text gets clipped on the vertical axis is a bug.
(Agree that using very large fonts is a corner case... except for users with visual deficiencies, or users like me who simply like them.)

Comment 4 Curtis d'Entremont

2006-06-14 14:59:45 EDT

Actually it is not even using relative font sizes.. it should.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145540 ***