[Sugar-devel] More information on font scaling problem

[Gary C Martin]

On 5 Jun 2009, at 21:42, James Simmons wrote:

> Gary,
>
> Thanks for doing this.  I wish I could say it cleared things up but  
> I feel more confused than before.  You say these are both XO's with  
> different versions of Sugar.  I thought that the font behavior on  
> the XO was consistent, no matter what version of Sugar you used, but  
> that you needed to use the SUGAR_SCALING environment variable in  
> other places to make the fonts look OK.  That doesn't make sense  
> because the zoom factor should be 72, meaning that any font number  
> you put in would be multiplied by .72 and truncated to the next  
> lowest integer.  Which is just the opposite of what you'd want to  
> do, because it's the XO that has the font too big, not my  
> development environment or SoaS.
>
> Even the .84 one doesn't look right to me.  When I run sugar- 
> emulator on Fedora 10 the font looks *much* smaller than that.
>
> Maybe sugar-emulator *is* providing SUGAR_SCALING but instead of 100  
> it is using 72?

Not sure if this is valid, but if I open Terminal activity in 0.82 and  
"set | grep SUGAR", I see no SUGAR_SCALING environment variable  
provided. Only:

SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT=...
SUGAR_BUNDLE_ID=...
SUGAR_BUNDLE_NAME=...
SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH=...
SUGAR_BUNDLE_VERSION=...
SUGAR_LOCALEDIR=...
SUGAR_THEME=...

Interesting... trying the same under Sugar 0.84 (latest SoaS image) on  
an XO-1:

SUGAR_THEME=...  is no longer present
SUGAR_SCALING=100 appears!

Regards,
--Gary

> James Simmons
>
>
> Gary C Martin wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 16:40, James Simmons<jim.simmons at walgreens.com 
>>> > wrote:
>>>> I mentioned before that I'm having a font sizing problem on the XO
>>>> running .82.  When I set a font on a textviewer it looks OK running
>>>> under sugar-devel or SoaS by is *much* larger on the XO.
>>>
>>> Sorry, in an earlier email i replied to you what would work in 0.84,
>>> didn't realized you were talking about 0.82.
>>>
>>> In 0.84 Pango knows the resolution of the screen and scales all  
>>> fonts
>>> accordingly. This means that by using, say 10, the font will always
>>> look good in all hw.
>>>
>>> In 0.82 didn't knew about the screen, so we were scaling all fonts  
>>> by
>>> using style.zoom().
>>
>> Not sure if you have easy access to both Sugar 0.82 (larger text)  
>> and 0.84 (smaller text) on an XO-1 for testing, so I've just  
>> grabbed a screenshot from each showing ReadETexts-12 so at least  
>> you have examples of your current release behaviour.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
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