[Sugar-devel] Font display revisited

[Art Hunkins]

I see things differently.

1) I understand that a UI for users to change "default" (a misnomer here) 
font size will not be available until 0.90. Thus until then developers will 
be completely responsible for how their displays look. (*Default* to me 
implies a size *prior* to any user modification);

2) I believe that a user should expect that the distribution's default font 
display looks good (i.e., fits appropriately) on various monitors (my 
activities do). I suspact that users will only change (or rather, should 
only *need* to change) their "defaults" in special cases - as, for example, 
partially-sited individuals who simply require larger fonts than usual. In 
such a case, in text-based activities such as mine, this will normally 
involve horizontal scrolling. Most individuals will not want to scroll; they 
will prefer a standardized display (a default) fit to the screen.

If noone here knows the answer to my question, I'll certainly ask elsewhere. 
It continues to puzzle me why the same default font sizes (and same fonts) 
cannot reasonably display similarly in different versions of SoaS. Is anyone 
else troubled by this?

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
Cc: "Sugar-devel" <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Font display revisited


> 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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