I did some testing of different settings to see what works best in Ubuntu. I was surprised to find that there are very few fonts that have anywhere near the line spacing as you can see in Windows. I sized my window to match your screenshot and the closest I was able to come up with 29 lines in the Package Explorer window. I got to 29 lines by changing my Gnome "Application font" to FreeSans Medium 8pt. System > Preferences > Font
In the process I discovered that the text editors in Eclipse set their font based on Eclipse preferences, not system settings. I chose to make it "Monospace 9pt" which seems to be very close to the same size as the Windows font, but I think the Linux Monospace font is easier to read. From Eclipse go to: Window > Preferences > General > Apperance > Colors and Fonts > Basic > Text Font Hope that helps, Nathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "alanP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:01:12 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles Subject: Re: [appfuse-user] Ubuntu fan despairs of ugly Eclipse on widescreen laptop Screen dumps are here (oops): http://www.nabble.com/Ubuntu-fan-despairs-of-ugly-Eclipse-on-widescreen-laptop-tf4523618s2369.html#a12930159 melinate wrote: > > Interesting problem. My laptop is 1400x1050 and I haven't noticed any > significant issues with Eclipse on Ubuntu as opposed to Windows [I > previously had Windows and Eclipse installed on the same laptop]. Maybe > you could post a link to a screen shot and we could compare? > > Nathan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:02:33 AM (GMT-0800) > America/Los_Angeles > Subject: Re: [appfuse-user] Ubuntu fan despairs of ugly Eclipse on > widescreen laptop > > I didn't write this page - Nathan Anderson did. Nathan - any advice? > > Matt > > On 9/26/07, alanP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Matt: >> In your Maven for Newbies page you say: >> ... At home I'm doing a different project on my Ubuntu laptop with Sun >> Java >> 1.6 and Eclipse 3.2 ... >> >> Me too, at home have Ubuntu and Eclipse 3.2 on laptop, but I'm reluctant >> to >> use it, because Eclipse is so wasteful of screen space, especially in >> vertical (screen res 1280x800 resolution). Perhaps GTK is to blame, but >> I >> don't know how this works, or if it is configurable. >> Have you had any success getting Eclipse to look like as nice as it does >> on >> Windows? >> >> regards, Alan >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Ubuntu-fan-despairs-of-ugly-Eclipse-on-widescreen-laptop-tf4523618s2369.html#a12905295 >> Sent from the AppFuse - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > -- > http://raibledesigns.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ubuntu-fan-despairs-of-ugly-Eclipse-on-widescreen-laptop-tf4523618s2369.html#a12930161 Sent from the AppFuse - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
