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Bug 320616

Summary:	[JFace] New default fonts on Windows 7
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bokowski, hosamaly6, prakash, remy.suen, susan
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	3.7 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	293356

Description Gunnar Wagenknecht

2010-07-22 08:05:33 EDT

It would be nice if the JFace fonts could be changed on Windows 7 to align better with the system fonts. 

For example, the text editor font should be "Consolas" instead of "Courier New" if the font is available on the system. (AFAIK Consolas is included in Windows 7 now).

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2010-07-22 08:11:08 EDT

Sounds like this could be a duplicate of bug 293356.

Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2010-07-22 10:22:34 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Sounds like this could be a duplicate of bug 293356.

At least it's related and could be solved together.

Comment 3 Susan McCourt

2010-09-08 20:08:39 EDT

Fixed in HEAD >20100908.
We now specify variants of Segoe UI for the banner and header fonts.
We specify Consolas for the text font.  Opened bug 324810 to ensure that the text block selection font is updated to specify Consolas on windows7.

Comment 4 Paul Webster

2010-09-14 10:34:22 EDT

In I20100914-0100
PW

Comment 5 Hosam Aly

2011-07-12 11:06:42 EDT

May I suggest setting the size of the Consolas font to 11, which is more similar to Courier New 10?