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Sidebar is very small

#1

I don’t know when this applied, but the sidebar font size is very small. I didn’t change anything…

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Is this a bug or was something changed?

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#2

It seems starting 3142 sidebar row padding was reduced.

// macOS & Linux
"row_padding": [16, 3], // <- [16, 4]

// Windows
"row_padding": [16, 2], // <- [16, 4]
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#3

Yes, I decided to make a tweak to ensure we had more consistent spacing across platforms, and I decided that the previous was just a little too large. The previous setting worked well for large displays, but gave up a little too much usable space on smaller screens. Considering the space is more valuable on a smaller screen, it seemed best to optimize for that out of the box.

The different setting for Windows is related to the line height of the header (which is 1px larger than filename, on all platforms). It just so happens with Segoe UI, increasing the font size 1px results in a 2px line-height increase, resulting in taller rows in the side bar. With the different fonts on different platforms, they won’t all ever match up exactly, but they are more similar now.

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#4

So this is normal behavior and only can be changed on a theme-setting level?

Well, it’s okay, but I just want to know if this is a bug or a feature :slight_smile:

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#5

Everything in your screenshot looks correct to me for a Mac, yes.

I haven’t written official docs on this yet, but you can tweak themes with little changes pretty simply. Create a file named Default.sublime-theme in your Packages/User/ folder and add the following to tweak the font size of headings and label in the sidebar:

[
    {
        "class": "sidebar_heading",
        "font.size": 15
    },
    {
        "class": "sidebar_label",
        "font.size": 14
    }
]

You can read more about the structure and options for themes at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/themes.html.

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#6

Thanks! Just wanted to know if this is all intended :smiley:

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