consider people with poor vision

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 12:12 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:57 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2013-06-15 08:08 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> > 
> > >> I would want (for F20 if possible) to be able to change the font size easily.
> > 
> > > It's really not technically possible to do that with how anaconda's
> > > written.
> > 
> > I suspect the solution is both possible, and easier than you think. Likely 
> > it's constructed in similar fashion to web pages that size in pixels instead 
> > of characters (em/rem/ex) or fractions thereof. Dispensing with pixel values 
> > of more than a single digit for sizing anything other than bitmap images 
> > unleashes the natural adaptability of a display screen that doesn't apply to 
> > designing for paper.
> 
> No, that's not the point at all. The point is that there is only so much
> space for text in the UI. Have you tried running anaconda in Japanese or
> German at 800x600? When there's too much text on a spoke (those are both
> languages which use a lot of characters to say the same thing compared
> to English), the display of the spoke becomes entirely corrupted.

Oh, and trying to size an entire UI in relative units in a GTK+/glade
project is a giant PITA, so far as I understand.
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