Re: Porting Gtk apps to maemo: howto change default font size
Hi, Nicolas schrieb: I have compiled gFTP which is a Gtk FTP client, but the UI interface has many things to display, and the default font size is too big to be usable. Same problem with PcManFM which is a lightweight Gtk filemanager. Question: is there an easy way to customize font size for specific applications? (I saw the gtkrc file, but I don't want to mess with the whole system theme). Or should I patch the Gtk code to change the font size inside the application (I have no experience with Gtk, but I guess this should be fairly easy)? that's a quite common problem but reducing the font size is not really what you want to do in most cases. Just keep in mind that these user interfaces were designed for devices with much bigger screens. The high screen resolution of the tablets of course make it possible to reduce the font size, but that's not necessarily good for usability. You should take a look at the user interface implementation and check what you can do to reduce the amount of space you need. (Make it simpler, reduce the amount of displayed information...) If there are areas where it really makes sense to reduce the font size you can use a markup switch (small) to make it smaller then the default size. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of todayTel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow.Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904][EMAIL PROTECTED] 1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76 ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Porting Gtk apps to maemo: howto change default font size
Thanks for the tip Florian about using the small markup, it will be
usefull for me.
Regarding gFTP I have choosed to reduce the font size globally in order to
keep everything on one screen. I have searched how to apply a different
style to all the widgets (eg: use osso-SmallFont instead of osso-SystemFont)
but failed. So the method I used is to call:
gtk_rc_parse_string(style 'osso-SystemFont' { font_name = 'Nokia Sans
11.625' });
I think the soft remains very useable with a stylus (but forget about using
the finger). But of course I'll consider users feedbacks.
Here is a screenshot:
http://www.screenshots.cc/view_image/847fe1309/shot-2007-11-28-13-46-15.png
I have posted a message regarding having access to one of the maemo extra
repositories in order to upload the packages (I don't want to open yet
another repository).
Nicolas.
On Nov 30, 2007 12:58 PM, Florian Boor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
Nicolas schrieb:
I have compiled gFTP which is a Gtk FTP client, but the UI interface has
many things to display, and the default font size is too big to be
usable. Same problem with PcManFM which is a lightweight Gtk
filemanager.
Question: is there an easy way to customize font size for specific
applications? (I saw the gtkrc file, but I don't want to mess with the
whole system theme). Or should I patch the Gtk code to change the font
size inside the application (I have no experience with Gtk, but I guess
this should be fairly easy)?
that's a quite common problem but reducing the font size is not really
what you
want to do in most cases. Just keep in mind that these user interfaces
were
designed for devices with much bigger screens. The high screen resolution
of the
tablets of course make it possible to reduce the font size, but that's
not
necessarily good for usability.
You should take a look at the user interface implementation and check what
you
can do to reduce the amount of space you need. (Make it simpler, reduce
the
amount of displayed information...) If there are areas where it really
makes
sense to reduce the font size you can use a markup switch (small) to
make it
smaller then the default size.
Greetings
Florian
--
The dream of yesterday Florian Boor
is the hope of todayTel: +49 271-771091-15
and the reality of tomorrow.Fax: +49 271-771091-19
[Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904][EMAIL PROTECTED]
1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76
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Re: Porting Gtk apps to maemo: howto change default font size
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 19:24 +0100, Nicolas wrote: I have compiled gFTP which is a Gtk FTP client, but the UI interface has many things to display, and the default font size is too big to be usable. Same problem with PcManFM which is a lightweight Gtk filemanager. Question: is there an easy way to customize font size for specific applications? (I saw the gtkrc file, but I don't want to mess with the whole system theme). Or should I patch the Gtk code to change the font size inside the application (I have no experience with Gtk, but I guess this should be fairly easy)? The general answer is fix the app: the built-in file manager manages to be use usable with the font size so why shouldn't pcmanfm or gftp? If the font was drastically smaller, it wouldn't be possible to use the device outside of an office, so what's the point? Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Porting Gtk apps to maemo: howto change default font size
Hi, I am playing with the maemo Chinook SDK and made some tests to see how easy it was to port Gtk apps to maemo (fairly easy in fact!). I have compiled gFTP which is a Gtk FTP client, but the UI interface has many things to display, and the default font size is too big to be usable. Same problem with PcManFM which is a lightweight Gtk filemanager. Question: is there an easy way to customize font size for specific applications? (I saw the gtkrc file, but I don't want to mess with the whole system theme). Or should I patch the Gtk code to change the font size inside the application (I have no experience with Gtk, but I guess this should be fairly easy)? Regards, Nicolas. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
