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Configurable font size for the secondary side bar
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Description
Users should be able to configure the font size in the Variables, Plots, Help, Viewer, and Connections panes.
Using ctrl+ to zoom in the entire interface to a level where I can comfortably read the text in the secondary side bar increases the sizes of other elements of the window to a point where I lose too much screen space, so this is not a solution.
I can find settings to adjust the font in the editor but nothing for anything in the secondary sidepanel. Is there there an extension i can use or a css file or something I can change to just increase the font size there?
Originally posted by @addaboi in https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/4312
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Research direction
Start by locating the existing editor font-size settings and the implementations of the Variables, Plots, Help, Viewer, and Connections panes. Trace how their text sizing is currently controlled, then verify that a separate font-size setting changes those panes without zooming the entire interface.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100