I just installed vermillion 98 on my box, and experienced the new font setting. The font size is very small to me as well. I have to change the font size back to 10. AFAIK, other distributions set GNOME default font size to 10 (as least Ubuntu 8.04 does).
-Evan Jedy Wang wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 01:00 -0700, Frank Ludolph wrote: > >> Hi Jedy, >> >> I'll reply since I was the one that suggested the sizes... >> >> Be sure to distinguish the system font sizes (8 pt) from the font >> sizes for Thunderbird and Firefox. The latter are larger. What are you >> using to read emails. >> > Hi Frank, > > I am using Evolution as my mail client. > >> I agree that the sizes sound quite small, but the default GNOME >> default fonts look very, very large compared to the defaults on >> Windows and Mac. The sizes shown in the UI spec provide approximately >> the same appearance as those desktops. To arrive at them I ran 2008.05 >> under virtualbox on Windows XP in an alternate workspace and switched >> between Windows and OpenSolaris workspaces. To test the system fonts I >> used preferences panels, menus, file manager windows, etc. As a cross >> check I set the same sizes on a bare metal install on a laptop. >> >> This applies of course to roman character sets. Asian fonts may >> require something else? >> >> The same techniques were used to set the icon sizes. >> >> BTW, my eyesight is now quite poor. I find the suggested sizes to be >> legible though occasionally a size too small for my old eyes. >> > If most people are comfortable with the font size, I am OK with using > the size as the default setting. But I don't think we should change it > just because it's different with Windows. When I am using Windows, I > always want to make the font larger. The only reason preventing me to do > this is that Windows does not work very well with larger font as GNOME > does. > > Regards, > > Jedy > > >> Frank >> >> >> Jedy Wang wrote: >> >>> Hi Calum, >>> >>> Are you really sure that default font size for GNOME is 8 pt? This size >>> is really small and make it very hard to read mails. >>> >>> Developers of firefox also think 14/12 is too small for the browser. And >>> according to their feedback, most browsers use 16. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jedy >>> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 17:41 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Since we didn't quite get around to implementing the UI spec for >>>> 2008.05, we've recently been tweaking it a bit for 2008.11 (and have >>>> actually assigned people to make it happen this time...) >>>> >>>> <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/uispecs/indiana-uispec/> >>>> >>>> Comments welcome... it hasn't really changed too much since what we'd >>>> planned for 2008.05, bar a bit more panel reshuffling (to try and >>>> achieve a functional split of "actions and status" on top and "windows >>>> and workspaces" on the bottom), and some minor changes to accommodate >>>> upstream changes in GNOME 2.24. >>>> >>>> Cheeri, >>>> Calum. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >
