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Idea
#14185: smaller font by default
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Written by nelson.blaha the 7 Oct 08 at 15:37.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I recently changed all my fonts in system-> preferences-> appearance to size 8 from 10, and I'm very pleased with the way it relieves ubuntu's tendency to look "fat". Try it and see! I think this might be an acceptable default, or at least some kind of option during install ("which of these sample boxes is readable to you?"). I, for one, wish I would have thought to do this a long time ago, as it's like having a bigger monitor.
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nitrofurano wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 15:42
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i like more the idea of predefined presets which were we can choose from.
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Grieteke wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 16:23
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When you wan't smaller fonts, it's not that hard to change. Yet, when you need large fonts because of high resolution, bad eyes, etc, it's much harder to change them because you can't read your menu's. So please keep ubuntu usable, it's not that hard to customize.
Yet, it would be nice of I could set fonts at install, now I've to do it twice.
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piotrekp wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 17:27
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Default Ubuntu is "fat" because Gnome themes are "fat". Compact themes save a little bit of space but it isn't a solution in the long run.
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dino wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 18:13
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if you need a compact theme to do your ui you did something wrong anyway :D
i would love to see the possibility to set font size by REAL values like centimeter / inch / whatever - that would be portable.
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eddturtle wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 21:16
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Change your screen resolution! Put it up a bit and your fonts will appear smaller.
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zooounds wrote on the 8 Oct 08 at 10:00
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Looks fine on 1600x1200 - it all depands of resolution.
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Auzy wrote on the 8 Oct 08 at 10:19
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Actually, it has nothing to do with resolution.. It has to do with dpi (dots per inch). By decreasing your resolution, you are simply reducing the dots per inch which blows things up a bit.
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dino wrote on the 8 Oct 08 at 11:20
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auzy, yeah, thats why i would like to set font size with an resolution-independent size, meaning not in pixel.
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Auzy wrote on the 8 Oct 08 at 11:24
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Yeah, we need resolution independance.. Thats the best fix. Because hd laptop screens would produce much much much too small text. And as quality gets better on laptops, the situation will only get worse
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neon wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 19:48
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Mhhmmm @ Auzy and dino.
I think bumping it down to 9 would be a suitable change though. It IS rather huge on default, even with my 1440x900 screen.
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Auzy wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 03:44
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@neon. Many laptops you can buy are 17" at 1920x1200. And the resolution of laptop screens will grow (while the screen stays the same, because everyone wants an awesome screen but nobody wants a 30" notebook), so the text will start looking smaller and smaller. In fact, 15" will probably be the LCD panel that grows in resolution the quickest (because it seems to be the most popular laptop panel, and people want 1080p support). So its entirely possible those will be 1920x1200 soon.
Thats why this idea is a problem. We have to take the resolution independence approach instead. Otherwise font size on some monitors will end up much too big, and much too small on others.
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