Re: [e-users] E17 has advantages BUT [ Menu font size ??? ]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jt...@tt...>]

It would appear that on Feb 19, Carsten Haitzler did say:

> tried the scaling config? :) (for people with bad eyesight... or when dpi
> is stupidly high...) :) it's under look... check out the advanced one...
> and a custom scaling setting might be the go. a full restart of e will be
> needed for it to totally work right...
> 
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:08:57 -0500 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jt...@tt...>
> said:

> > Then I tried:
> > 
> > settings panel=>Look=>scaling
> > 
> > And while I eventually got it to distort the icon/labels
> > such as "Look", "Apps", "Screen", "Input", etc... in the
> > settings panel, neither menu font size nor button label
> > font size were even affected... 
> > 
> > My sore eyes are tired of squinting. (glad I still got e16!)

Well thanks for the quick response Carston. But as I said I "_TRIED_" to
use the scaling option. But I'm not sure I understand the effect that any
particular setting in the gui tool is supposed to have... And when I
blindly tried one change after another I eventually got "_SOME_" results.
The only thing that I saw get bigger was the text labeled icons that
scroll sideways across the top of the settings panel. It appeared to
have NO effect on any other font in or out of the settings panel...

	(Yes I used restart to punctuate each change I attempted to
	make... Unnh! By "FULL restart" do you mean completely
	shutting down the server as in practically rebooting? Or
	should E's marvelous restart function do it?) 

Actually I doubt I'd be happy with dpi based scaling solutions anyway.
IF they worked wouldn't they also make all my already large print
application settings (like Konsole font sizes) become even BIGGER???

I hate to change all those fonts back to fine print as then every time
I wind up booting kde I'd have to change them back again...

Incidentally I don't really think my font size needs are overly large.
I mean If I use the kernel option vga=normal the default font size on
the virtual consoles (such as you likely get with <ctrl>+<alt>+<Fkey>)
are always just about right. I note: that before gui designers decided
that everyone should have the vision of a hawk this was a "NORMAL" text
size...) 

I was really hoping that somewhere there was a configuration option to
select such things as what fonts are used in the menus, and pop-up gui
tools... 

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