[Sugar-devel] F11 for XO1 - Fonts

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Martin
Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with dsd that users should not be able to 'tweak' DPI, but I
> am also concerned that font sizes may be bumped up or down a bit for
> the sake of the user. But not to very large values -- if a user needs
> fonts to be significantly larger, we need to scale the whole UI for
> that user.

IOWs, I pine for this gtk+ v3 patch

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546711

which was introduced with a very insightful discussion thread

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-August/msg00044.html

see specially

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-August/msg00068.html

Hmmm. You guys are papering over this gtk shortcoming -- which is
bound to be confusing. Here's a candle for GTK+v3

:-)



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