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vuxo

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Registered: 2018-08-28

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Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

Hey, fellow Archers.

I installed Eclipse months ago and its UI looks "big" (panels, tabs, etc):
https://s8.postimg.cc/sygu0eznp/eclipse_1.png
https://s8.postimg.cc/m80cqzk7l/eclipse_2.png
https://s8.postimg.cc/s8y1o2ejp/eclipse_3.png
The wiki does shows you how to Disable GTK+ 3, but its description:

When the SWT GTK+ 3 UI is buggy and sometimes unusable, You can try to disable the use of GTK+ 3 with the SWT_GTK3=0 environment variable when you start eclipse

appears to not be the right path to follow (AFAIK).

How can I solve this problem? Any kind of help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Last edited by jasonwryan (2018-08-31 05:35:58)

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Re: Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

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V1del

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Re: Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

I don't see anything sticking out as incorrect in these screens, care to elaborate how "slim" you'd expect it to look? Have you already tried changing your GTK3 theme around?

vuxo

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Re: Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

Care to elaborate how "slim" you'd expect it to look?

The company I work for gave me a laptop with Eclipse already pre installed and the UI looks "thinner".

Have you already tried changing your GTK3 theme around?

I haven't. I'll try that and post the results.

vuxo

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Re: Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

Changing around GTK3 themes does shows "changes". On some themes the icons got closer and I could see a "thinner" look but not quite what I was expecting, on some other they further apart and the aspect was "thicker".

V1del

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Re: Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

What theme does the Eclipse you got for work use? If that is on Windows that will naturally have differences as that uses a different underlying UI toolkit.  If you want to approximate that you might want to try and see if switching to a Windows theme variant under Window -> Preferencees -> General -> Appearance might help.

Other than that there are a plethora of reasons why there could be differences, do you use any High DPI scaling options, what are the DPI settings on the "correct" looking laptop versus your own system. If the laptop is on linux compare the theme and other relevant settings.

vuxo

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Re: Eclipse's (Photon) interface looks too big

on Windows that will naturally have differences as that uses a different underlying UI toolkit

Well, that's true.

What "helped" me a little bit, was to remove Open perspective entry from the tool bar. After that the tool bar "shrunk".

But anyways, I ended up removing elements from the perspective that I don't normally use and guess what? It look better.

Thanks again V1del