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Build Identifier: I20110427-0800 This problem happens in Eclipse v4.1, but not v3.7. I try to change View title fonts in preference, but fail to apply the changes. JDK : "JRE 1.6.0 IBM Windows AMD 64 build pwa6460sr9fp1-20110208_03 (SR9 FP1)" OS: Windows 7 SP1 Japanese. The same problem happens in Windows XP, too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts 2.Click "View and Editors Folders" 3.Change fonts for "Part title font", and push "Apply" button.
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We should delete this extension contribution I suppose as this is now controlled by CSS.
(In reply to comment #2) > We should delete this extension contribution I suppose as this is now > controlled by CSS. Thats exactly what I thought. We should not have the Color and Fonts preference page itself.
You can modify the Title font by editing the corresponding CSS file. In my case, it was the gtk one, but plugins/org.eclipse.platform_VERSION/css/e4_default_PLATFORM.css Where "VERSION" is replaced with your eclipse version and "PLATFORM" is replaced with your OS platform. In my case, the actual file (using 4.2M1 on Ubuntu) was: plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.1.0.v20110805-1200/css/e4_default_gtk.css You then edit the CSS for ".MPartStack" to change the tab title font style.
*** Bug 358249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #5) > *** Bug 358249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** and how exactly is this supposed to work in a multi-user environment? Take Linux, where the path where programs are normally located is read-only - for good reasons. thx Michi
*** Bug 358532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #6) > and how exactly is this supposed to work in a multi-user environment? Thank you for raising this topic to our attention, Michael. I have opened bug 358606 for this issue.
> We should delete this extension contribution I suppose as this is now > controlled by CSS. I'm sorry but editing the CSS in my humble opinion isn't a very user friendly way of changing colors and fonts. Maybe it would be better not to delete these preference pages but actually make them work? I mean, what business is it of the user whether these settings get stored as CSS... or something else? To make a point, if it weren't for this bug report, I wouldn't have even known that this stuff is in a CSS files burried inside a plugin in my installed Eclipse. It seems just not right that I have dig out that CSS file and edit it directly. I certainly agree it isn't logical that the font preferences page doesn't work, but deleting it doesn't really seem like a proper solution to that problem.
While I'm not sure of the final disposition of the pref pages, we do plan to try and get them to work with the CSS (I can't find the bug at the moment) before just throwing them out. The workaround in the meantime is http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse4/CSS PW
Same for colors, see bug 355946.
I agree with Kris de Volder: there's been 'times' that we had to edit any control file by hand, even without a visual editor or such (early DEC software, UNIX-6 ...). Then someone came along to tell us that we were idiots to work that way and that this approach was never to make it to customer level. So we started to write smart 'wizards' that wouldn't mess up those files and even our customers now could 'configure'. Later the control files went binary and the GUI approach was the 'only' way to go (e.g. the Microsoft Registry). If however, in 2013, someone had told me that in an expensive product like Visual Studio, you still had to edit some file to get the desired font or colour, I wouldn't have believed him/her. So, it IS true for a fine product like ECLIPSE ...... I do hope that people like Paul Webster have some influence to keep the project back on the right track. Or should we all go back to the 3 releases? ;JOOP!
*** Bug 416286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Gerrit code review: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/21030/ Daniel
(In reply to Daniel Rolka from comment #14) > Gerrit code review: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/21030/ > > Daniel Thanks Daniel. Reviewed and submitted with http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.git/commit/?id=042952eb8bb110aca719378b6551dd021c4069c5 Setting the 'View message font' still does not work. I've investigated this and it looks like this got broken back in 3.1, see bug 325235 for more details.
Verified in N20140128-2000.
