Evan, Actually, instead of changing font sizes you should change the resolution dots per inch (click Details on the fonts dialog). If you are using a laptop or LCD screen the dot resolution is probably more like 120 dpi than the default 96 dpi.
That said, I'm beginning to think that perhaps we should go back to the 10pt setting until this can be handled properly... :-( Frank Evan Yan wrote: > 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 >> >>
