Frank Ludolph wrote: > 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. > Given most people use LCD screens nowadays, I guess we should either change the default dpi, or use a larger font size.
Thanks, -Evan > 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 >>> >>> >>> > >
