Bug 508072

Summary:	Consider shipping FiraCode as default font for all code editors
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	aobuchow, gautier.desaintmartinlacaze, nobeh5, pyvesdev
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:	398656
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht

2016-11-23 13:59:16 EST

FireCode is an open source font aimed at improving font rendering for programming.
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

I think we should evaluate if it's worth making it the default in the new generic code editor or IDE wide.

Comment 1 Andrew Obuchowicz

2020-05-22 06:53:50 EDT

Kind of unrelated:

I assume that the purpose of this bug was essentially to support ligatures in text editors (like the generic text editor).
However this bug suggests using a font with a SIL Open Font License - does this mean any font with the same license could potentially be packaged with Eclipse IDE?

I've been using Terminus (http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/) as my editor font with Eclipse for quite a while (and it uses the same license). I know it might be hard to convince the community to include it with Eclipse, but could I theoretically include it in an Eclipse plugin?

Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Bigourdan

2020-05-22 10:22:58 EDT

(In reply to Andrew Obuchowicz from comment #1)
> Kind of unrelated:
> 
> I assume that the purpose of this bug was essentially to support ligatures
> in text editors (like the generic text editor).
> However this bug suggests using a font with a SIL Open Font License - does
> this mean any font with the same license could potentially be packaged with
> Eclipse IDE?
> 
> I've been using Terminus (http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/) as my
> editor font with Eclipse for quite a while (and it uses the same license). I
> know it might be hard to convince the community to include it with Eclipse,
> but could I theoretically include it in an Eclipse plugin?

If Terminus is SIL Open Font License as well, I think the only requirement is to include copyright + license in the plugin that ships it, and keep any changes you make to the font under the same license.