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Bug 642392 - font in application display is too small
font in application display is too small
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.91.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-02-15 16:13 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2012-01-18 20:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Add bold property to css class .icon-grid (921 bytes, patch)
2012-01-14 01:19 UTC, Alex Hultman
none Details | Review
iconGrid label size is changed to 8pt bold from 7.5pt default (1.11 KB, patch)
2012-01-14 01:50 UTC, Alex Hultman
committed Details | Review

Description Bill Nottingham 2011-02-15 16:13:57 UTC
With the switch to Cantarell, we're switching to a somewhat more lightweight font. This is problematic at the small sizes used in the dash - when I'm sitting at a normal, comfortable, viewing distance from my laptop (trying to avoid hunched-over programmer posture), the fonts in the dash and application display are really too small to be easily readable.

1440x900 display, 140 physical dpi. X seems hardcoded at 96dpi.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2011-02-15 16:20:59 UTC
Changing the summary, as we no longer have labels in the dash ...
Comment 2 Allan Day 2012-01-13 13:59:42 UTC
This is somewhat covered by bug 663725, although it might be good to deal with the text size separately.

The label text should be bold and probably a little bit bigger...

Here's the current mockup for reference:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-design/plain/mockups/static/overview-application-picker.png
Comment 3 Alex Hultman 2012-01-14 01:19:39 UTC
Created attachment 205233 [details] [review]
Add bold property to css class .icon-grid

More to come..
Comment 4 Alex Hultman 2012-01-14 01:50:19 UTC
Created attachment 205234 [details] [review]
iconGrid label size is changed to 8pt bold from 7.5pt default

also removes a duplicated semicolon
Comment 5 Rui Matos 2012-01-18 19:27:32 UTC
Review of attachment 205234 [details] [review]:

Looks good. Allan gave his +1 on IRC. I'll commit this.
Comment 6 Rui Matos 2012-01-18 19:34:12 UTC
Comment on attachment 205234 [details] [review]
iconGrid label size is changed to 8pt bold from 7.5pt default

I somehow missed marking this commited.
Comment 7 Allan Day 2012-01-18 20:00:00 UTC
Thanks for the patch Alex! I'm sure a lot of people will welcome this change.