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Bug 38028 - Tree viewer in preference dialog looks ugly
Summary: Tree viewer in preference dialog looks ugly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56558
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Silenio Quarti CLA
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Reported: 2003-05-23 06:36 EDT by Andre Weinand CLA
Modified: 2004-03-29 09:10 EST (History)
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Ugly looking tree in Pref dialog (35.15 KB, image/jpeg)
2003-05-23 06:37 EDT, Andre Weinand CLA 		no flags Details
Nice looking tree in Navigator (53.40 KB, image/jpeg)
2003-05-23 06:38 EDT, Andre Weinand CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Andre Weinand CLA 2003-05-23 06:36:21 EDT 
I20030520
MacOS X 

The default font used for the tree viewer in the Preference dialog results in bad character 
spacing and too wide line spacing and makes the tree look very ugly.
This is in contrast to the tree viewers used in the Navigator and the Package Explorer: 
both have no such problems and look nice  (see attached screenshots).

I've tried to change the DialogFont in order to match the font used in the Navigator, 
however, I couldn't find the correct font. In addition, if I change the DialogFont to 
something that looks nicer in the preference tree, this affects all dialogs (which I don't 
want).

I suggest to use the same font for trees in dialogs as it is used in the Navigator.

Please note: on MacOS X the platforms provides no means to change fonts globally. So 
Eclipse must come with good looking font settings because the user cannot change them 
outside of Eclipse.
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-05-23 06:37:30 EDT 
Created attachment 4941 [details]
Ugly looking tree in Pref dialog
Comment 2 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-05-23 06:38:12 EDT 
Created attachment 4942 [details]
Nice looking tree in Navigator
Comment 3 Silenio Quarti CLA 2003-05-27 12:41:46 EDT 
The font in the Navigator is the default font of the Tree/Table/List widgets. I 
believe the workbench is changing the font of the widgets in the font dialog. I 
am not sure which font it is using. I'll investigate.
Comment 4 Andre Weinand CLA 2004-03-29 09:10:02 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56558 ***