Today’s Question:
Are the Tree View fonts configurable? (E.g., Connections). I am using a high-resolution display (1920×1200) and they appear quite small.
And the answer:
Yes!
Oh, but you probably wanted the how as well…OK.
Here’s what the tree UI looks like out of the box on Windows 7, locale US English, with 1600×900 screen resolution and not using any of Windows Accessibility options…
Some PLSQL code that does…
And here’s a look at what it looks like when I bump the font size up to 14:
And here’s where to set that property
In Windows, you want to to go to the Application Data, Roaming Users directory that stores the settings files for SQL Developer. On my machine that’s here:
C:\Users\jdsmith\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\system4.1.0.13.75\o.sqldeveloper.12.2.0.13.75
Note: my version string at the end might be a different than yours depending on your version of SQL Developer.
You want to open ide.properties. You’ll notice it is VERY well documented. There’s a section that speaks to Windows in particular. To change the default size for all look and feels, add this line, the uncommented one:
# To modify the font size for a particular locale under all # look-and-feels, set the Ide.FontSize.<languageID> property. For # example: Ide.FontSize.en=14
If you think 14 looks huge, one of my co-workers has his set to 21!
This doesn’t control the font size for text in the editors and the data grids
We have a preference in the UI for that.
In the next version, we’ll add a UI preference for this setting as well. But for now you can set this on your own pretty easily – once you know how!