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.
I'm quite annoyed in general at the firefox developers, for a number
of reasons (including font choices) which I won't go into here.
What I would like to suggest, as feedback for the 2008.11 UI Spec,
is that if the user has a default fontsize set via their font prefs
in the window manager --- we should use that setting. Anything else
would be surprising to the user ("hey, that's not the font I set!")
and detract from the overall user experience.
James C. McPherson
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Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
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