Where's the font setting for folders in the Package Explorer?

Question

I'm talking about Eclipse (3.5 = Galileo), running under Kubuntu 9.10 and I have the Subversive plugin.

I've been moved from Gnome-Ubuntu to Kubuntu, and one side effect was that some fonts are now just too tiny to read.

File names in the explorer have a decent size, but folders are shown in a too-small font, and after having adjusted all the fonts in General|Appearance|Colors and Fonts the folders are unchanged.

Maybe I'm just blind. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to where I can adjust the font for folders in the Package Explorer

Answer 1

Eclipse is supposed to respect the OS settings but it turns out on Mac OS X the default setting for eclipse is to use small Fonts rather than the standard os fonts. On Mac OS X you can change edit the eclipse.ini file and remove -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts restart eclipse and presto you will find that your package explorer looks brilliant with reasonable sized fonts.

To find the eclipse.ini on a Mac, right click on Eclipse.app, then select "show package contents", then you will find the ini file in Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini

Answer 2

It'll use the default GTK+ font settings, as Eclipse is a GTK application. You may have to install Gnome's Appearance preference applet to get a GUI to change it.

Answer 3

Feedback on success:

It seems that in Kubuntu, any fonts not explicitly specified in Eclipse's preferences come from the system. Eclipse is a Gnome app, so its fonts (among other stuff) are controlled by

System Settings | Appearance | GTK+ Appearance

...and there I was able to fiddle the fonts to my satisfaction.

My thanks to Andrew Aylett!