[Sugar-devel] #1146 UNSP: (Default) Text is too small. This can be easily seen even on the (SoaS) login screen.

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> Aleksey,
>
> To clarify my "bug": SoaS text is not just too small in a given Activity;
> text is too small in SoaS *overall*.
>
> SoaS's default font size seems to be 10 - the same as for XO-1. Any text
> that SoaS prints seems to be size 10. For me to get readable text, I need to
> raise all instances (in my activity) to 14. (This is equivalent in
> set-user-markup to "<big><big>".)

Coincidently, I am attending an accessibility conference today. In
general, we need the ability to change the system font size--and a
standard means for Activities to scale.

> Regarding your code suggestion: Indeed I'd like to have a general
> declaration to set font size to 14 in my activity (for SoaS - all cases).
> Would it be sufficient to:
> declare:
> from sugar.graphics import style
>
> and early in my __init__ method specify:
> style.font_zoom(14)
> ?
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aleksey Lim" <alsroot at member.fsf.org>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>; <bugs at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] #1146 UNSP: (Default) Text is too small. This can
> be easily seen even on the (SoaS) login screen.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:59:25PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote:
>> This happens on all text (i.e., not-image) display, to my knowledge.
>>
>> Obvious examples are the Log and Terminal Activities.
>>
>> The most problemmatic examples are when text is used in a PyGTK boxed
>> context (such as the 4 activities included in Victor Lazzarini's csndsugui
>> project).
>>
>> Basically text appears (in SoaS) to be the same font-size as on the XO-1,
>> where it is appropriate. Somehow text is not being appropriately rescaled
>> (or whatever the appropriate term is) for larger screens.
>
> I use something like this
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/sugar-port/port.style-pysrc.html#font_zoom
> for that reason
>
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "SugarLabs Bugs" <bugtracker-noreply at sugarlabs.org>
>> Cc: <bugs at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: #1146 UNSP: (Default) Text is too small. This can be easily
>> seen even on the (SoaS) login screen.
>>
>>
>> #1146: (Default) Text is too small. This can be easily seen even on the
>> (SoaS)
>> login screen.
>> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>>     Reporter:  abhunkin                   |          Owner:  tomeu
>>         Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new
>>     Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified
>> by
>> Release Team
>>    Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  0.84.x
>>     Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:
>>     Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  SoaS
>> Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |
>> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>>
>> Comment(by tomeu):
>>
>>  Does this happen with all activities? Or only some are affected?
>>
>> --
>> Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1146#comment:2>
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> Aleksey
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-walter

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Walter Bender
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