smallFonts setting always come back after update

[martinlippert]

I have a fresh install of Eclipse, remove the smallFonts setting from the ini file, and update the installation to a new version of the project. After the update, the smallFonts setting is back.

Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

[merks]

It's in the product files

Hence there are touchpoints that add during the install/update process.

Nothing actually tests for true/false either:

So even an Oomph Eclipse.ini task to set it to false would not help and that task has no support for removal. Maybe a text modify task to remove it...

Otherwise, there is not much you can do.

[martinlippert]

For my use case, setting this in the product is just fine, that is what I would like to roll out to users by default, so that is perfectly working. The question comes up for me when a user prefers the bigger fonts and therefore removes the smallFonts from the ini file manually - which works just fine as well. But the update mechanism brings it back when the next version comes out.

So I was thinking whether there is a way to make this a little easier for the user than manually removing the smalFonts setting again after every update... :-)

But if this would require some more complicated changes here and there, it is probably not worth the effort... Neverthless, thanks a lot for looking into this, @merks, that is very very much appreciated.

[odrotbohm]

As I have been the person nagging Martin about this: does it make sense to turn this into a setting which would add or remove the entry from the file?