GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713081
Conversation list doesn't honor OS font size
Last modified: 2019-01-15 06:40:28 UTC
---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-06-24 03:01:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 7136 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7136 Searchable id: yorba-bug-7136 Original author: Joachim Johansson Original description: I would like to see Geary honoring the font size set by the OS, or at least include an opportunity to change the font size in the software. The middle pane (lacking a more exact description), is at the moment ridiculously hard to read on my 13 inch 1920x1080 screen. The problem also appears when showing html-formatted e-mails, as well as in the header area of the message pane. Related issues: related to geary - Bite-sized #4508: use document font in message viewer and composer (Open) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-11-14 17:16:00 -0800 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Eric Gregory 5 months ago * **Subject** changed from _Honor font size settings set by the OS_ to _Conversation list doesn't honor OS font size_ * **Category** set to _client_ * **Target version** set to _0.4.0_ Looks like we have a regression here. Note that the text scaling factor **does** affect the conversation list, just not the font size. #### #2 Updated by Charles Lindsay 5 months ago Is it a regression? I didn't think we ever honored the OS font size: #4508. #### #3 Updated by Eric Gregory 5 months ago Yes, I spent half a week on the code to resize the fonts here. :( #### #4 Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_ #### #5 Updated by Jim Nelson 7 days ago * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.5.0_</strike>) --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:19 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7136 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7136 Imported an attachment (id=260571) Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
I have the same issue with geary. Middle panel (which shows messages list) is hardly readable on my ThinkPad T440S (1920x1080px). Left and right panels can be configured using either system settings or custom css file placed in ~/.config/geary, but these methods doesn't work for middle panel.
BTW I'm using Freya, geary 0.8.3
Yuriy: what do you mean that it's hardly readable? Could you provide more details of what the exact problems is, and perhaps a screenshot?
In Joachim's original report & screenshot, there are two different issues: 1. In the conversation list, although the subject line for the conversation is rendered using the system size, but the preview text is rendered too small. The preview text is smaller by design, but in this case it looks like it it way too small - so that may indicate a bug. 2. In the conversation viewer, the headers (sender, subject, etc) are rendered too small. This has been fixed by Bug 765516 and will released in 0.12. Yuriy, I believe you are seeing a different bug: 3. Namely that the conversation list font size is not obeying the system font size preference at all, neither the subject line nor the preview text. This was recently reported on the mailing list. Looking at the source for for the conversation list, it seems like the font sizes are hard coded(!), so I'll try to get a fix for at least (3) and tune (1) a bit better asap.
Mass-reassigning bugs that won't make 0.12.
Remove bugs from 0.13 with dependencies on others.
Resolving as obsolete all bugs that should be resolved by the conversation list redesign (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730682). I'd mark them as a duplicate, but bz won't let me :( Apologies for the noise.