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Every time I want to change the font of one of the IDE's editors, I'm a bit frustrated that I have to click on every element from the definition, in order to check if that inherits the font definition or not. When you want to change the complete font, this is a very tedious task. I think it would be better if the "default" font would only include the font name. And each individual item would inherit that automatically. Attributes like bold, italic should not be stored together with the font itself. I know that technically it is an attribute of the Font object, but from a user's perspective it's not. If I change the font from Courier New to Lucida Sans Typwriter I don't want to change every item which is displayed in bold or italic as well. I want them to display in Lucida Sans Typewriter {bold|italic} instead.
Changing subcomponent to settings.
I'm strugling with this every single day and got almost used to it. Changing to defect and raising priority since we want to improve USABILITY of IDE.
This is at least a P3 IMO.
Agreed, the editor's infrastructure allows that it's just a question of an appropriate UI. In the past I've personally offered to have [x] Apply font name [x] Apply font size [x] Apply font style related to the selected font. Or an alternative could be [x] Inherit font name [x] Inherit font size [x] Inherit font style Instead of the single checkbox [x] Inherit But none of these solutions were accepted which I sort of understand as it may seem rough to users. Adding Rudolf to cc whether he has any clue here.
This is a duplicate of the issue #36432 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 36432 ***