🎯 Overall Assessment

• Recommendation: APPROVE
• Summary: This PR introduces a minor change to apply font-variation-settings to the suggestion widget, addressing issue #199954. The change enhances the rendering of the suggestion widget by utilizing variable font settings, which were previously not applied.

📋 Code Changes Analysis

📁 src/vs/editor/contrib/suggest/browser/suggestWidgetRenderer.ts

Changes: 2 additions, 0 deletions

Old vs New Code Comparison:

// Old Code
const fontFeatureSettings = fontInfo.fontFeatureSettings;

// New Code
const fontVariationSettings = fontInfo.fontVariationSettings;

// Old Code
main.style.fontFeatureSettings = fontFeatureSettings;

// New Code
main.style.fontVariationSettings = fontVariationSettings;

Specific Issues Found:

• Line 131: The addition of const fontVariationSettings = fontInfo.fontVariationSettings; is appropriate and correctly retrieves the variable font settings.
• Line 145: The line main.style.fontVariationSettings = fontVariationSettings; correctly applies the variable font settings to the suggestion widget.

Suggested Fixes: No fixes are necessary as the changes are correct and align with the intended functionality.

🔍 Detailed Findings

Critical Issues (if any)

• None identified.

Moderate Issues (if any)

• None identified.

Minor Suggestions (if any)

• Consider adding a comment above the new lines to explain the purpose of fontVariationSettings for future maintainers. For example:

// Retrieve and apply variable font settings for better typography support
const fontVariationSettings = fontInfo.fontVariationSettings;
main.style.fontVariationSettings = fontVariationSettings;

✅ Positive Aspects

• The change is straightforward and effectively addresses the issue raised in #199954.
• The code is clean and follows existing conventions.
• The addition of variable font settings enhances the visual quality of the suggestion widget.

🚀 Recommendations

• Ensure that the changes are tested across different variable fonts to confirm that the settings are applied correctly and that there are no regressions in the appearance of the suggestion widget.
• Consider documenting the new setting in the project’s documentation to inform users about the support for variable fonts in the suggestion widget.

lgtm, tho I also wonder if suggest should just use ICodeEditor#applyFontInfo so that all font tweaks are applied by default