Bug 560984

Summary:	Unable to select a native font in editor pane.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Matthew Hall <hall>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	rolf.theunissen
Version:	4.7.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Matthew Hall

2020-03-10 11:58:37 EDT

I refer to text in the default C/C++ editor pane.
Previous Eclipse CDT allowed us to choose a native font, that is, one that could be displayed without aliasing. We seem to have lost this capability - all fonts are now rendered at a scale that requires aliasing. Some developers find the blurring very distracting. Turning off aliasing (obviously) results in misshapen characters.

Linux:    Ubuntu 18.04
WM:       xfce4
display:  1920x1080

For an example of an un-alised font, try xterm.

Any suggestions welcome.

Comment 1 Rolf Theunissen

2020-03-12 06:06:37 EDT

Eclipse uses GTK to render on Linux. So this would depend on the ability of GTK and SWT/GTK to render bitmap fonts.

Another option would be installing a font that is hinted for binary rendering, no clue if there are any available.

Moving to SWT so they can comment on this.