Why doesn't the IDE antialias?
I just tried out M1, and I can't believe there is no antialiasing in the IDE. What's up with that? It looks like a 1990 UI. There is an option to turn on antialiasing in the text editor, but it is just gray scale, not subpixel. I see that the IDE uses Java 1.5, which supports this, though you have to turn it on. I believe that 1.6 makes it the default.
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Hello Jonathan,
IDEA does use antialiasing if you run it under JDK 6. In my personal opinion,
non-antialiased fonts are more readable than the JDK 5 implementation of
"antialiasing" (and even JDK 6 subpixel antialiasing is visibly worse than
the native Windows XP ClearType).
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Dmitry Jemerov
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This seems to depend on the used font. Tahoma look quite OK.
Thanks Dmitry, that works great. Yes, Swing font rendering is not as good as Windows (and the new Vista fonts are really nice - try Consolas). But at least on my system it is a lot better than nothing. Strangely, menu items are still not antialiased.
Is there any way to change the font size on the "inspector" windows like Structure and Project? I have a high-DPI screen that makes them almost unreadably small.
Jonathan