off to a nostart F18B start

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-11-30 23:55 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 02:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> It's just as bad as F17's: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701190

>> The problem is the default size Anaconda fonts for the display's native
>> resolution are too small, and overall, whitespace is massive. By reducing
>> resolution or forcing DPI up, fonts can be made acceptable. The problem is
>> neither workaround for too small fonts is available in Anaconda, at least,
>> not explained anywhere I've been able to find.

>> My workaround is to start installation on a smaller 1280x1024 LCD, and after
>> Anaconda starts, move the VGA cable to a larger CRT that Anaconda would
>> otherwise set to 1920x1440. This shouldn't be necessary.

> Well, I've never heard anyone else complain about it, or seen it
> mentioned in any reviews. 'Too small' seems a very subjective judgement.
> They seem big enough to me.

Open http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-dejavu.html in Chromium. 
Measure the width of the black "inch" to get a frame of reference to compare 
what you see to what I see. Here on a 20" 1600x1200 LCD it measures 15/16". 
The (19.8" actual; nominal 21" NEC FE2111SB) CRT Anaconda has running at 
1920x1440 connected to the F18 installer measures 1/8" shorter (12.125" vs 
12.0" tall), for all practical purposes the same size as the LCD I'm writing 
this on. The closest match on 
http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-dejavu.html to the description text 
for the various selections on the Software Selection page is the uppermost 
8pt line. It's actually measurably larger than the 8pt line, but much much 
smaller than the 9pt line. By comparison, my browser defaults in the Geckos I 
actually use to browse with are a closest match to Chromium's display of the 
uppermost 14pt line, while my UI text on the desktop is closest to the 12pt 
line. Figuring the actual size of the installer's text to be about 8.2pt on 
the Chromium browser scale, it's about 67% of the size of my browsers' 
minimum size settings, 47% of the size of my desktop's UI text, and 34% of 
comfortable, my browser's "14pt" (on the Chromium scale) default; where 
"size" is a function of area (height & width), not the nominal sizes used by 
CSS. It's actually worse than 34% of comfortable. NAICT, the actual px size 
is 8px @1920x1440, and it takes 9px at a minimum to fully form most alpha 
characters on a computer display. Anaconda makes that text look like scribble.
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