https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670222
Bug ID: 1670222 Summary: Eclipse help browser unusable due to hard-coded font size being unreadably small Product: Fedora Version: 29 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Component: eclipse Severity: high Assignee: mat.booth@redhat.com Reporter: dwt@poltec.com QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: akurtako@redhat.com, andjrobins@gmail.com, dbhole@redhat.com, ebaron@fedoraproject.org, eclipse-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org, jerboaa@gmail.com, jjohnstn@redhat.com, lef@fedoraproject.org, mat.booth@redhat.com, rgrunber@redhat.com Target Milestone: --- Classification: Fedora
Description of problem: Eclipse help browser fonts are unreadably small
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eclipse-platform-4.10.0-2.fc29.x86_64
How reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Eclipse 2. Help=>Help Contents 3. Help browser will open, note size of font in content pane
Actual results: On a 1080p laptop screen the content font is < 1mm high
Expected results: The help browser should be helpful and use a readably-sized font, and beyond that should be user configurable like pretty much everything else in eclipse
Additional info: This has actually been true since at least fedora 23, though back then I didn't notice when using a lower resolution screen, and may not have had much occasion to open the help browser anyway.
The help font resists being changed by any method; it's like it's hard-wired into the code. Nothing under windows=>preferences=>colors and fonts seems to have any effect. There are some promising-looking css files under ~/.eclipse, but changing all the font sizes to something huge does nothing.
The only thing which touches this problem is to set the desktop (Mate) font rendering dpi to something ridiculously high, like 200 or 300, but then everything else is scaled up absurdly.