[Sugar-devel] F11 for XO1 - Fonts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 16:55, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
>> I meant to ask to which UI elements this font size would apply to.
>
> All of them, the same way that the currently written "10" value does.

But not all text is rendered with that default font size.

>> That's all ok, but how do you see us moving from using Xft.dpi (that
>> today can get us font sizes that look good on several systems), to
>> font sizes to achieve the same?
>
> I don't see how it differs. At the moment you are telling people to
> falsify a dpi of X in order to get more readable fonts. Now you will
> just ask them to specify font size Y.

I was asking you about how we can get there, IOW which is the
suggested technical plan.

We have today a solution that allows scaling the size of the text in
all of Sugar, so it can adapt to any display. You point out that this
approach has a downside as text whose size is specified in points
won't have the same physical size in different displays.

I'm asking you what do you propose to fix that (doing so in a ticket
and/or feature page may be better).

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Daniel
>