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Bug 321199

Summary: Normal WikiText fonts still rendered smaller than monospace fonts
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Jörg Thönnes <jtk499>
Component: MylynAssignee: David Green <greensopinion>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-GTK   
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Example of font rendering in task comment
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Screenshot showing font size preferences none

Description Jörg Thönnes CLA 2010-07-29 05:33:01 EDT 
On my system (Linux Ubuntu 10.04) the rendering of WikiText (in task descriptions and comments) is still broken.
See attached screen shots.

I did not find any configuration to change that.


-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 1.3.0.20100617-0521 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.mylyn_feature 3.4.0.v20100608-0100-e3x
Comment 1 Jörg Thönnes CLA 2010-07-29 05:49:46 EDT 
Created attachment 175465 [details]
Example of font rendering in task comment

I wonder how I could configure matching sizes of monospace and sans fonts.
Comment 2 David Green CLA 2010-07-29 10:15:00 EDT 
Created attachment 175499 [details]
Screenshot showing font size preferences

Font sizes within the task editor are set in the preferences under *General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Tasks*.

Please try altering these settings.  After doing so you'll need to close/reopen your task editors in order for changes to take effect.  Please let me know if that fixes the issue.
Comment 3 Jörg Thönnes CLA 2010-07-29 10:36:32 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Font sizes within the task editor are set in the preferences under *General ->
> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Tasks*.

Oh my dear -- stupid me. This was confusing me all the time. And now I know why:

Since the appearance dialog configure both colors and fonts, I always entered "font" in the quick search field
to tune my fonts. But the relevant font here, i.e. "Task Editor - Notes and Comments" does not contain the word font.

Some other font entries also lack this keyword, but default to some base text font which I always configure.

So my request here would be: Just add font to the preference name, e.g. "Task Editor - Notes and Comments font".
Then this issue can be closed.
Comment 4 David Green CLA 2011-08-16 21:30:54 EDT 
Thanks Jörg, marking as "WORKSFORME".  Changing every font preference to include the word "font" in its label seems to go against usability best practices.