[Sugar-devel] F11 for XO1 - Fonts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:17, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
>> But not all text is rendered with that default font size.
>
> Do you have examples?

No, but I find it highly unlikely that all activities are using
sugar.graphics.style.FONT_NORMAL.

>> 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).
>
> OK, I'll give it some thought. Probably just making a gconf setting
> would be the best approach, and that's also what GNOME does.

Yes, I would be happiest if we did the same that GNOME does. Do you
know how widgets change the font size in response of changes to the
gconf setting?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Daniel
>



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