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

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 2

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!

Answer 3

Carl (or anyone): Any idea on Fedora 12 with KDE? Using

Settings | System Settings | Appearance | GTK+ Appearance

doesn't work for me, that is, it doesn't affect the font SIZE in the Package Explorer view of Eclipse 3.5. I can change the font face used but not the size. Is there a lower limit on the size of the font? Incidentally, I can't affect the size of the font in the menu bar either (but can change the window title font size).

Thanks for any pointers. I've searched this forum for other postings related to this but couldn't find any.

Tom