'font-size' in atom-workspace

[binhonglee]

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Description

There are no option to set the font-size for atom-workspace (everything outside of atom-text-editor) unless you use a theme that supports those changes (like Atom Material UI or One Dark UI ). Setting 'font-size' in atom-workspace does not change anything while setting 'font-family' changes it for most themes.

The current workaround taken from the forum is to do the following each time you change a theme and see if it works with that theme.

.theme-atom-material {
    font-size: 20px;
}

Felt like the interaction is pretty confusing at this point.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open styles.less
2. Set 'font-size' for atom-workspace

atom-workspace {
    font-size: 15px;
}

2. Save styles.less
3. Change the 'font-size' value

atom-workspace {
    font-size: 20px;
}

4. Save styles.less

Expected behavior: The workspace font size changes according to the value set.

Actual behavior: Nothing happens

Reproduces how often: Everytime

Versions

Atom : 1.17.0
Electron: 1.3.15
Chrome : 52.0.2743.82
Node : 6.5.0

OS info:

Operating System : Linux Mint 18.11 Cinnamon 64-bit
Cinnamon Version : 3.2.7
Linux Kernel : 4.4.0-57-generic

Additional Information

[simurai]

Currently there isn't an easy way to change the font size outside of atom-text-editor. Some options:

• Change to em units everywhere. Probably not gonna happen until a next major version.
• Make it possible to override ui-variables.less. See Configurable stylesheets through user-variables.less #5903

Until then individual elements need to be overridden in your style.less file. Here two related issues:

#3636
#2530

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