JetBrains / JetBrains/thinkrail
Font selection and font ligatures
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 467
- Forks
- 37
- Avg merge
- 1d 52m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 143
Description
## Problem
The code font is fixed. There is no way to use the font a developer already
has configured everywhere else.
Ligatures are also off everywhere. JetBrains Mono ships them, but nothing enables them.
## Proposed solution
Font picker (only for code) and ligatures toggle for it.
## Alternatives considered
Only ligatures, no font choice.
Per-surface settings (like IntelliJ's: UI font vs editor font vs terminal font). More knobs than needed; one family for all code text matches how most developers configure their tools.
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the settings UI and the code-text styling or font configuration used by the IDE. Confirm how settings are persisted and where code surfaces consume the font, then verify that a code-font picker and ligatures toggle affect all code text without changing the general UI font.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100