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Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #322598]

Wed, 21 November 2007 06:06

Eclipse User

Hi,

I installed Eclipse on a laptop with a high resolution screen -
1920x1200 at about 145 DPI. Most of the things look fine - GTK (on
Fedora 8) picked the right resolution and scales all the fonts
correctly. The annoyances that remained are that all the icons look tiny
and all dialogs seem too small.

Is there a way to tell Eclipse to use high resolution icons and to scale
windows according to the font pixel size?

Thanks,
Yuri

Re: Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #323134 is a reply to message #322598]

Tue, 11 December 2007 05:03

Eclipse User

No, Eclipse (Platform and IDE) does not have a solution for icons for
different dpi.
For me, this is a problem, too. But -sadly- there is no plans to improve the
usability for high resolution screens:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=110035

Teddy

"Yuri Magrisso" <yumariso@fastmail.fm> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:fi12su$vsl$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I installed Eclipse on a laptop with a high resolution screen - 1920x1200
> at about 145 DPI. Most of the things look fine - GTK (on Fedora 8) picked
> the right resolution and scales all the fonts correctly. The annoyances
> that remained are that all the icons look tiny and all dialogs seem too
> small.
>
> Is there a way to tell Eclipse to use high resolution icons and to scale
> windows according to the font pixel size?
>
> Thanks,
> Yuri
>

Re: Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #1283047 is a reply to message #323134]

Wed, 02 April 2014 22:34

Eclipse User

I just bought a 3000x1800 pixel monitor laptop. Eclipse is totally unusable. Something's going to have to be done about this in the next couple of years. The big screens are on the way!

Re: Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #1299980 is a reply to message #1283047]

Thu, 17 April 2014 04:35

Eclipse User

On 03/04/2014 15:20, Colin MacAllister wrote:
> I just bought a 3000x1800 pixel monitor laptop. Eclipse is totally
> unusable. Something's going to have to be done about this in the next
> couple of years. The big screens are on the way!

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem... I had to reduce the
resolution to 2000 :'(

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Re: Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #1312877 is a reply to message #1299980]

Thu, 24 April 2014 11:02

Eclipse User

On 17/04/2014 10:35, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> On 03/04/2014 15:20, Colin MacAllister wrote:
>> I just bought a 3000x1800 pixel monitor laptop. Eclipse is totally
>> unusable. Something's going to have to be done about this in the next
>> couple of years. The big screens are on the way!
>
> I'm experiencing exactly the same problem... I had to reduce the
> resolution to 2000 :'(
>
For those of us who can't yet afford such a luxury, it would be fun to
see a screenshot at least ;)

Felix

Re: Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #1355433 is a reply to message #322598]

Wed, 14 May 2014 14:30

Eclipse User

I tested to install Eclipse on Macbook Retina with Windows 8.1 on Bootcamp. Eclipse is quite awful. Whereas Visual Studio renders perfectly Sad

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Re: Eclipse on high screen resolution display [message #1670612 is a reply to message #1355433]

Fri, 13 March 2015 05:09

Eclipse User

I have the same problems on a 4k uhd monitor. Very annoying.

I am wondering if this is fixable using custom CSS theming. But the internals are quite complicated to me. I find overriding CSS easiest with the Jeeeyul's Themes plugin.

Anyone figured out a workaround yet?

Also see https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/1670524/

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