For anyone trying to fix PyCharm opening RST files, switch the preview panel renderer from JavaFX to Swing in Settings > Languages & Frameworks > ReStructured Text.
Source: David @ https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-35102
It looks like the JavaFX renderer was broken when this package switched off the bundled Java runtime onto the native system one. This is a repeat of another bug in 2017, something about font subpixel rendering 8 pages back. Eventually the repo switched back to bundled, and I no longer had to edit the PKGBUILD with every update. Now a bug appears, the switch is made again, and more bugs appear.
Switching to native Java in order to fix bugs seems to have a history of creating more bugs. Not to mention creating the work of having to manually edit PKGBUILDs!
@XavierCLL, what do you think of the idea of using two packages for this scenario? Something like pycharm-professional and pycharm-professional-native-java. Then if a user encounters a bug (like hidpi), they can find a pinned comment here saying to switch to the other branch?
From a user experience point of view, having the switch be made for us is destructive, and fiddling with PKGBUILDs and checksums is no fun when we'd rather be developing. I think it makes more sense for the AUR repo to have single opinion on the matter of its dependencies, especially when there are real tradeoffs between the versions. An alternate opinion belongs in another repo with provides: pycharm.
Thank you for spending your time maintaining this repo for the community!
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