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Created attachment 145889 [details] Mock-up screenshot The text zoom feature was introduced in v7.1 and is indeed very handy. It is currently only available via keyboard or mouse actions. Proposal -------- Make three actions available from the Editor Toolbar: 1. Decrease font size 2. Increase font size 3. Reset font size A mock-up Editor Toolbar is in the attached picture. This is just for illustration. (apologies for my lousy home made icons, I hope you get the idea) Motivation ---------- 1. Working off a laptop it is just a lot easier to click an icon than to remember a keyboard shortcut. 2. This feature is too well hidden. I would argue that many users do not know it exists. 3. Even with the keymapping change in 7.2 I still happen to accidentally activate this feature.. although a LOT more seldom than in 7.1. When that happens I have to remember how it is I get back. 4. The current keybindings/mouse actions do not expose a reset feature (you have to close and re-open the window - how many users would know that?). That would be easy to do from the toolbar.
I would say this is exceptionally important for HiDPI support - as the default font sizes are comical on 3200x1800, even at 150%, and there are no default key bindings for the text zoom feature - even though it is a core function, not language or environment specific.
markiewb has kindly created this plugin: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/53555, which does EXACTLY this. Consider taken the plugin into core.
A plugin is available. Lowering prio to P4