Fixing Editor Tab Fonts in Eclipse Juno

Eclipse Juno is out! It starts a good deal faster than Indigo, shows a more colourful (but ill-proportioned) splash screen, and then opens a workbench window with oversized and truncated labels in all editor tabs.

This applies to Ubuntu 12.04 with KDE and the QtCurve GTK+ theme.

This issue is not due to QtCurve or SWT, as I had first suspected, but to the new CSS-based widget styling of the e4 platform. There is an E4 CSS Editor which is not included in Juno by default, but can be installed via the Update Manager.

With this editor, you can change the font-size and font-family properties of the MPartStack style used by the editor tabs.

Much better!

Update 14 Aug 2012: If you develop web applications and edit CSS files in Eclipse, you'd better deinstall the E4 CSS editor after customizing the workbench layout to fall back to the standard WTP CSS editor. The XText-based E4 editor does not recognize some legal syntax like unquoted URLs.

Actually, you don't need any Eclipse plugin to change the CSS, you can directly edit the CSS file in your Eclipse installation at plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.0.v20120608140/css/e4_default_gtk.css.

Pax JDBC: An OSGi JDBC Service

Pax JDBC is a new project under the OPS4J umbrella which simplifies the use of JDBC drivers in OSGi applications by providing a generic driver extender and various native driver adapters for your favourite database.

This project aims at compliance with the OSGi Enterprise Release 5.0 specification.

Pax JDBC 0.1.0 is available from Maven Central, with native adapters for Apache Derby and PostgreSQL. Since this first release, support for H2 and MySQL has been added, and further contributions are always welcome.