How do we change fonts now

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 14:02 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) said: 
> > > though. Laptops are increasingly coming with displays featuring
> > > significantly higher than 96dpi resolution; I'm wondering when the first
> > > 2k LCDs will hit.)
> > 
> > You can increase the DPI of the screen in "Universal Access" -> "Larger
> > text".
> 
> I must be weird, in that I have a > 96 dpi screen, and I want the default
> fonts *smaller*.

I wanted them smaller too, and the code to do that is in git now (after
the nice designer mentioned the use case for it, and filed a bug).

> Then again, 140dpi on a laptop at typing distance is different from 140dpi
> on a on-desk monitor, in terms of the relative visual height of text. And
> without assuming everyone has a webcam, we're not going to auto-adjust
> for viewing distance any time soon.
> 
> Bill