[Sugar-devel] F11 for XO1 - Fonts

[Daniel Drake]

2009/8/18 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> 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

This was brought up earlier in the discussion. Yes, it's hopefully the
light at the end of the tunnel.

> 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

Feel free to suggest another option that can be implemented today.

I feel that my proposal is technically sound given what we have right
now, given its simplicity. Don't mess with DPI, just let deployers
select font sizes that look good on their target systems, and give the
users 2 nice simple buttons: get bigger, get smaller. It's simple and
won't eat much developer time. It will allow things to look ok on XO
and other platforms as long as there is someone who can select a good
default base font size.

It also fits nicely into what would come with GTK+3 since you'd just
swap the backend control from "font size" to "scale factor" (or
whatever equivalent knob comes out of all those discussions). The idea
of deployers being able (and often required) to select a good default
will remain, along with a dead-simple UI for changing it.

It will be also interesting to see what the css/html world comes up
with. I've seen a few discussions recently, they too are challenged by
being a platform that's spreading to vastly different displays.

Daniel