Re: [Nautilus-list] Font Size in List View

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

Hi again,

I couldn't stand the thought of people not being able to read list view
text, so I fixed bug 143 just now. The fix is post-PR3, but will be in 1.0
(and current CVS builds, of course).

John

on 2/1/01 11:16 AM, John Sullivan at sullivan eazel com wrote:

> Hi Karen,
> 
> We have an ancient bug report about the font size not changing with zooming
> in list view (bug 143), which we were not planning to fix for 1.0. However,
> you are the first I've heard to complain that the font size in list view is
> too small (which I think is a perfectly valid complaint, I just hadn't heard
> it before). The best way to address your complaint is probably to fix bug
> 143. I'll add some commentary to it and see if its priority can get bumped
> up.
> 
> The way the available fonts are presented (and which ones are presented) is
> being revised for 1.0.
> 
> John
> 
> on 2/1/01 10:52 AM, Karen at kspearel tampabay rr com wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps I am missing something here but in all of the talk about fonts
>> lately, I haven't heard anyone comment upon the rather miniscule font
>> size in list view.   On my system, the fonts seem to scale only very
>> slightly between 25% and 400%.  While Nautilus is very visually
>> attractive, and all of the problems I have noted in earlier versions
>> have seemingly been fixed, I greatly prefer using list views but if I
>> can't see the list, what's the point?  Since there has been no
>> discussion about this, I'm left to ponder if this is perhaps a 'feature"
>> or perhaps a problem particular to my system.  Turning off anti-aliasing
>> seems to have no effect on this and the default Helvetica font seems the
>> be the largest, albeit small, font.  Shouldn't we be able to select the
>> font size from those available on the system, at least if we are willing
>> to give up anti-aliasing in return?
>> 
>> Karen
>> 
>> 
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