GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 657188
Text size drop-down should use absolute font sizes
Last modified: 2011-08-27 01:44:44 UTC
The new a11y capplet has a "Text size" option with a drop-down menu: Small Normal Large Larger There is a problem in that the actual font size of those items depends on the currently-selected option. For example, the items are small if "small" is currently selected, and large if "Larger" is selected. The font sizes of those items should be absolute, so you can actually know what your selected results will be.
(In reply to comment #0) > The new a11y capplet has a "Text size" option with a drop-down menu: > > Small > Normal > Large > Larger > > There is a problem in that the actual font size of those items depends on the > currently-selected option. For example, the items are small if "small" is > currently selected, and large if "Larger" is selected. Fair enough. > The font sizes of those items should be absolute, so you can actually know what > your selected results will be. Except that it's where it breaks down. We change the DPI, not the font size, and the font size is actually dependent on the "UI font" used. So, in all, the font size (thus the content of the drop-down) needs to change every time the selection changes, and it needs to make up for the DPI change. Not quite as straight forward.
commit dcd6fe129a18284e223edcb02983e2b7f6b4d2f6 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Fri Aug 26 19:20:05 2011 +0100 universal-access: Keep "text size" items a constant size https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657188
Fast man! Thanks!