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The compare editor seems heavy. One reason is that it has plenty of widgets showing borders, resulting in more lines drawn, a few pixels wasted; while the value of this border on readability seems arguable. The compare editor should be reviewed to reduce the amount of lines it shows, and hence feel a bit lighter.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.team/+/183971
Created attachment 286927 [details] Before patch (current master)
Created attachment 286928 [details] After patch Those screenshot do show current proposal gets rid of a few heavy lines and save 2 pixels in width/height. Some extra lines could still be removed (in further patches).
One issue I see here is that the TextViewers themselves are delegated to extensions (eg Java or other editors), but those extensions usually don't set the SWT.BORDER styles for the widgets and there is no good way to forward the style from editor to viewers. So it's a bit tricky to remove some of the lines while emulating a border.