How to change fonts size of Project Explorer

[swdhsn]

Hello STS-Team,
not sure whether this is the right channel to ask.
Under
Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts
there are lots of places where you can change the fonts size. However I couldn't find out how to change the size of what is displayed in views like "Project Explorer" or "Package Explorer".
Is there a way to change this?

[martinlippert]

The font size in the explorer views is large controlled by the operating system. If you change the settings over there, the font size should change in Eclipse/STS, too.

On macOS there is a specific flag that gets set in the ini file to set the explorers to a somewhat small font size. If you remove that flag, the fonts are bigger.

[reya004]

ESSENTIALLY THIS IS SAYING THAT THERE'S NO SOLUTION FOR THIS.

[kdvolder]

@reya004 Maybe this is more helpful? It has more suggestions for different OS.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3124629/how-can-i-configure-the-font-size-for-the-tree-item-in-the-package-explorer-in-e

Unfortunately there is not much that we here can do about this situation. This is how Eclipse works. Personally, I agree that its not logical and confuses many people. But the only way to really 'fix' this issue is inside of Eclipse.

So you should raise a Eclipse bug or comment on a existing bug instead of here.

Actually I found there is a bug ticket for this exact problem (actually, I wouldn't be surprised if there are several tickets, but this is the one that I found):

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=540299

So I suggest you go over there and make a comment.

[Ikhan]

if anyone still searching for this solutions here it is(mac osx)

[torbenmueller]

Thank you so much Ikhan, this is exactly the solution.