From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Ingham To: Moses DeJong Cc: James Ingham , insight@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: A font size patch for large screens. Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:56:00 -0000 Message-id: <14257.51169.797958.812001@leda.cygnus.com> References: <14257.46328.983786.8613@leda.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00041.html Moses, > > A buddy of mine has a PowerBook, those are sweet machines. Only problem > is they get to hot for my lap (yee-ouch). Yeah, this was true for a while. They did something slick in the OS going from 8.5 to 8.6 to reduce power consumption and temperature. The PowerBook running MacOS 8.6 is pretty comfortable, though it was a bit toasty under 8.5. Got about 30 minutes longer on the battery too - go figure... Of course, if you are running LinuxPPC, you had better just put it on a table... The newer Bronze ones are supposedly lots cooler. > > Yeah, font sizes are always a pain. A size of 16 looks great on my > Linux box but is it flat out wrong on other systems. As long as > the default is "close", thats all I care about. The current default > of 9 is unreadable on my system. > > > Thanks for the patch. The idea is great, but I don't think the > > algorithm is quite right, however. I think the laptop case is an > > extreme example of many pixels + small physical size. I have a Sun > > display at 1280x1024, and 16 is way too big a font for the default. > > 14 is okay, though a bit on the biggish side, 11 is really pretty > > good, though 9 is definately too small. > > Change away. I would love to test out any new algo. > Okay, I'll fool around with this when I get half a mo', I am pretty busy right now. Jim -- ++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++==++ Jim Ingham jingham@cygnus.com Cygnus Solutions Inc.