[Sugar-devel] Font display revisited

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 00:59, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone answer Daniel's question?
>
> If DPI stays coded the way it is, and point size holds at 10pt., wouldn't
> these facts stabilize default font displays on future SoaS distributions?
>
> (Hope, hope.)

You may want to ask in the soas ml, but in 0.88 we are going to make
it easier to users to change the default font size, so apps shouldn't
make any assumptions based on a fixed value for that.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Drake" <dsd at laptop.org>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Font display revisited
>
>
>> On 19 February 2010 17:04, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>> This makes no sense whatever to me. It gives the developer little control
>>> over text display at all, with the possible exception of furnishing
>>> different code for each incarnation of SoaS. (This is what I'm currently
>>> doing - but I'd rather this not be a lifelong task.)
>>
>> Is SoaS hardcoding a DPI value for the display? This would explain
>> what you are seeing.
>>
>> Daniel
>
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