On Monday 21 November 2005 04:47 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 21 November 2005 9:35 am, Felix Miata wrote:
Four choices: 1-Be happy/live with the Firefox UI defaults 2-Install a theme with the smaller or larger fonts you want 3-Install only the Gnome components required to control fonts, gnome-control-center and its deps 4-Customize with CSS
Re (3): I think you have to install gnome-settings-daemon also and activate it on each session startup.
Ummm...don't know about that. I am 99% sure I do not have it installed. As per #3, I have only the absolutely necessary files, gnome-control-center and whatever it required. I also do not have the .xsessionrc file although there is a template there for it. gnome-control-center does set font sizes for you in the windows of the apps, gimp, gqview, firefox, etc. The really annoying thing is the teeny tiny fonts in the menus and sub-menus (dialogs) They should be able to be set in a css file.FYI here is an excerpt from a two year old e-mail with a mozilla developer back when I was running 8.2 and had the very same problem. It was unresolved but may give some of you who have much more knowledge than I something to go on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tuesday 19 August 2003 18:23, you wrote:
Bob Stia wrote:
Here is my userChrome.css file: ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- menubutton, menulist, menu, submenu, menuitem, #urlbar { font-family: arial !important; font-style: normal !important;
....................<snip rest of userchrome>...............
It's possible that someone has added some new type of menu which isn't one of those, in which case I should add it to the example. But that's the list I use myself, and I haven't noticed any submenus that aren't following the font I specify. Which submenus in particular aren't following it?
OK, In Navigator, File. Open file, the listings of files. Save page as, the listings of files,
Wait, those are all dialogs, aren't they? Not submenus? I don't see those as submenus at all ... for instance, File has Open File... as a single item, and that brings up a file selection dialog (which is different on each platform and won't generally follow mozilla preferences, I suspect). We are talking about the regular mozilla app, not firebird, right? (We must be, though, since you mentioned Composer.) I wonder if it's different on different platforms? (I'm on linux.) I just downloaded a current build from yesterday, in case there were recent UI changes, but that's not the difference.
Regular Mozilla - Suse 8.2. Don't know as how they would be different on different systems. These "dialogs" should be common to the internal workings of Mozilla. I downloaded the newest mozilla since our last messages. Some things have been improved. Others have not. I have included a small screenshot of EDIT - PREFERENCES. As you can see the left hand side is OK. The dialog to make your choices have those tiny fonts. Other dialogs seem to be better except for the tiny fonts in the selection buttons eg: Cancel, OK, Apply, etc. ...................<snip a bunch of stuff>....................
It might be time file a bug on this, though (in bugzilla.mozilla.org, please cc me on it) because it's sounding like this is probably (a) a bug which needs to be fixed for proper accessibility (it's important that our fonts can be made big enough to be visible!) and (b) may be in an area where I can't easily fix it (perhaps on a platform I don't use). We probably need to get someone involved who knows more about XUL and what changes might have happened recently in the menu system which might have caused this.
...Akkana
Akkana, Just wanted to tell you that I attempted to file a "bug" report with bugzilla. Very complicated. Don't think I was successful. As stated above, I waited for the next release and installed it.Some improvement but .there are still instances that have those tiny fonts in what you call "dialogs". Thanks for trying to help, that much is appreciated. Bob S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ So you see, this has been around a long time. Back then I tried editing my css files to no avail. My latest quest has been trying to modify my dpi settings, in hopes that will resolve the tiny font problem, with which Felix is guiding me. (Thanks Felix) Not there yet though. Bob S.