Bug 369091 - Easy zooming font size in Eclipse IDE
Summary: Easy zooming font size in Eclipse IDE
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 84776
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 minor (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-01-19 09:54 EST by Alexander Desyatnichenko CLA
Modified: 2012-01-30 13:31 EST (History)
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Description Alexander Desyatnichenko CLA 2012-01-19 09:54:12 EST 
Build Identifier: Version: 3.7.1.r37x_v20110729-9gF7UHOxFtniV7mI3T556iZN9AU8bEZ1lHMcVK  Build id: M20110909-1335

It will be nice to simplify font zooming in Eclipse IDE.
It could be created by use:
- Shift/Ctrl + Scroll_Wheel (example in GIMP);
- Scroll Widget (example in LibreOffice);
- Some key press (example - Ctrl+Shift+'+' Ctrl+Shift+'-')...


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2012-01-19 10:46:10 EST 
Are you talking about the text editor? I'm guessing you are.
Comment 2 Alexander Desyatnichenko CLA 2012-01-19 11:27:30 EST 
Not only in text editor, but also (if it possible) in Tips-widget and in "Problems", "Outlie",... sections IDE - if zooming start and section is under focus. It will be very useful to the people with vision problems.
Comment 3 Deepak Azad CLA 2012-01-19 11:47:58 EST 
Having 'pinch zoom' support in Eclipse (editors) would be nice :-)
Comment 4 Remy Suen CLA 2012-01-19 11:49:11 EST 
Editor zooming support would be bug 84776. I'm not sure how feasible it is to achieve zooming at a widget level.
Comment 5 Alexander Desyatnichenko CLA 2012-01-19 12:46:26 EST 
I have not enough knowledge on java, but if I had solved a similar problem, when I create (initialize) widget instance "tips" would be passed on to him not only the coordinates of the cursor - to determine the location of the widget, and increasing the font size  (ie, there do not need to keep track of zooming events)..
Comment 6 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2012-01-30 12:30:13 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 84776 ***
Comment 7 Alexander Desyatnichenko CLA 2012-01-30 12:52:44 EST 
(In reply to comment #6)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 84776 ***

I'm sorry, but I think that even though implementation of these 2 requests lead to the same result, but the realization of - different. In my query, we are talking about the possibility of increasing the font size in any way possible (even without using the mouse wheel, for example, so as not to take your hands off the keyboard when you change / learning source code).
Comment 8 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2012-01-30 13:04:01 EST 
Okay, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=84776#c11

is that okay ?
The feature request is in Bug 84776, the way the user controls the feature should be discussed in there (in my opinion).
Comment 9 Alexander Desyatnichenko CLA 2012-01-30 13:31:09 EST 
(In reply to comment #8)
> Okay, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=84776#c11
> 
> is that okay ?
> The feature request is in Bug 84776, the way the user controls the feature
> should be discussed in there (in my opinion).

Thank you very much for your work.