[Bugs] #1690 UNSP: Retain font and size in Write Activity

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#1690: Retain font and size in Write Activity
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    Reporter:  krid                       |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Write                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:  easy-hack                  
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by sascha_silbe):

 There was some discussion about this
 [https://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-January/thread.html#9937 on
 iaep in January 2010]. Some concerns raised were:

  - It's just one particular example of the general scaling / sizing
 problems in Sugar. See #39, #871 and [https://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive
 /sugar-devel/2009-June/015051.html an explanation (on sugar-devel)] of
 relationship between number of pixels, physical screen size, viewer
 distance and angular size (the one perceived by the viewer).
  - A well-chosen default font is likely to have a better effect overall.
  - Saving the last-chosen font globally means you can break the entire
 Write activity, rather than just a single instance. You can't just start
 over or resume a previous version.

 Sugar doesn't have a concept of global configuration for an activity yet
 (though there is [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-
 level_Activity_API#Writable_Directories a suitable place] for storing
 activity-global data), at least partly because of the above concern
 (regarding breaking all instances rather than just a single one). Please
 ask the [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team Design Team] for input
 if you still plan on implementing this.

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