From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Moses DeJong To: James Ingham Cc: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: A font size patch for large screens. Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:27:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <14257.46328.983786.8613@leda.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00037.html On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, James Ingham wrote: > Moses, A buddy of mine has a PowerBook, those are sweet machines. Only problem is they get to hot for my lap (yee-ouch). > Ooh... You have a nice laptop! Mine can only do 1024x768 (though it > is a PowerBook, so it's ravishingly beautiful...) 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. later mo > We should be able to play around with some heuristics involving both > "winfo screenwidth" and "winfo screenmmwidth" to get a better choice. > What do you think? > > Jim > > > Hi all. > > > > I just downloaded and debugged my first program with insight. It looks > > great, but the default font is much too small on my 1280x1000 laptop screen. > > I have included a patch that adjusts the default font size based on the > > height of the screen and adjust the range of the font size select widget. > > > > > > Mo DeJong > > dejong@cs.umn.edu > >