[FIXED] Eclipse: large toolbar icons

Issue

Does anybody know how to use large toolbar icons? Edit: How do I do it?

Solution

There is no support in Eclipse for large/small icons in the toolbar.
As href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107938" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this bug describes:

The other issue though is really that the GNOME toolbar style, similar to Mac OS X, is for a small number of large icons, while the Eclipse toolbar style is for a large number of quick-access buttons.
This means that the recommendations for, say, icons vs icons+text don't really apply to the Eclipse toolbar.

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Update 2016 (5 years later)

Since 2011, you have some workarounds, like this answer referring to davidglevy/eclipse-icon-enlarger, which double the size of the icon in the eclipse main jar.
You have more instructions at PhantomYdn/eclipse-icon-enlarger.

You have the same idea (double the size of icons) implemented as a script (here is an gene1wood/scale_eclipse.sh)

But if the issue is poor (too small) resolution on HiDPI / Retina displays, try also the actual official Microsoft workaround (as illustrated here)

1. regedit:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > SideBySide: create a DWORD PreferExternalManifest set to 1.

2. Beside eclipse.exe, create an eclipse.manifest file with, as content, one similar to this article.

Answered By - VonC
Answer Checked By - Senaida (JavaFixing Volunteer)