Bug 489995

Summary: Make the status bar height configurable
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mark Nuyts <marknuyts>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: laurent.redor, marknuyts, psuzzi
Version: 4.6   
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Description Mark Nuyts CLA 2016-03-19 07:40:24 EDT 
It would be nice if the status bar height could be configured. Maybe by specifying a font size to be used?

Right now it takes rather a lot of screen space for info that one rarely looks at. IMO, half of the height it has now would suffice.
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-06-01 11:41:18 EDT 
Interesting idea, do you want to provide a patch ?

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute
Comment 2 Mark Nuyts CLA 2016-06-02 15:53:53 EDT 
I'll give it a try. Never done it before, so i'm not familiar with the codebase etc.
Could you point me to the correct (sub)module?
Comment 3 Mark Nuyts CLA 2016-06-06 08:45:59 EDT 
Created attachment 262257 [details]
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I suspect the rss news in the status bar (not moveable) fixes the height of the status bar.
Comment 4 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-07-04 17:22:36 EDT 
That's nice. Sorry for not getting back earlier. 

Would you like to contribute a Gerrit patch?

I see you already signed a CLA; so you just need to install a 64bit oomph, switch to advanced mode, and download an Eclipse IDE to develop against Platform UI, and Runtime.

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