Why does Eclipse Java Package Explorer use the System Font?

There is no way to adjust the font or font size o开发者_如何转开发f the Java Package Explorer. It inherits the font settings from the system. In the case of Windows XP, the default 8 point font is too small for my taste. I'd like to enlarge it. When I do that, however, this affects the browser and other applications and in some cases makes the font too large in other contexts (such as Firefox Tab Text).

Eclipse is supposed to respect the OS settings but it turns out on Mac OS X the default setting for eclipse is to use small Fonts rather than the standard os fonts.

on Mac OS X you can change edit the eclipse.ini file and remove -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts restart eclipse and presto you will find that your package explorer looks brilliant with reasonable sized fonts.