Distribution: Debian testing/unstable
Package: control-center
Severity: enhancement
Version:  unspecified
Synopsis: make system font sizes dependent on display size
Bugzilla-Product: control-center
Bugzilla-Component: font properties
Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
Description:
I flip my laptop between using the built-in LCD and a nice large display
when I'm at my desk.  When X starts and uses the maximum screen size
that the system can support, I either get fonts too small (on the
external CRT) or too large (on the built-in LCD).

It would be nice if, instead of specifying "Sans 12" or "Sans 16" or
whatever as the GNOME fonts, that I could specify some proportion of the
screen height and let some start-up time logic pick the most legible,
efficiently-sized font.  Perhaps take the Y-screen resolution and
calculate what size font to use to fit $some_number of EMs into that
space.

Or/and, perhaps use X' DPI information to help in the calculations.

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------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-04-06 18:29 -------


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