[Bug 835299] New: xmessage window content illegible at above average display density
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835299 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835299#c0 Summary: xmessage window content illegible at above average display density Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 13.1 Milestone 4 Platform: All OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mrmazda@earthlink.net QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=552954) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=552954) 144 DPI screenshot of Konsole, font settings, YaST2 & error message window generated by YaST2 failure This isn't new in M4. Actually it is years old. Error message windows generated by YaST2 failures do not heed any of the several configured text sizes specified either in KDE settings, or in Trolltech.conf. They should. That way they should be legible and thus useful. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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FeiXiang Zhang
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Stefan Dirsch
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Felix Miata
What is this bugreport about?
It's about making error message text size legible. Illegible messages are useless. How to go about it I really don't know. Device pixel densities are all over the place now, and getting even more so for the foreseeable future. So, presenting error messages sized using pixels of indefinite size as the xterms that xmessage seems to be using needs to stop. If in fact xterms are simply being called, it seems the caller could find an appropriate point size in a Trolltech.conf or other existing font configuration file and if found call the xterm with -fa. Even if not found, a point size fallback/default of 10 should work a lot better than pixels that could render at 4pt or less. YaST2 is built with a new toolset now, so maybe someone who knows how to use and/or learn that toolset can come up with something that wasn't previously available. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #11 from Felix Miata
Best is to open a bug that yast uses xmessage at all
YaST2 apparently uses xmessage because the DE is KDE. 'zypper rm xmessage' wants to remove: kdebase4-openSUSE kdebase4-session kdebase4-workspace kdebase4-workspace-ksysguardd kdebase4-workspace-liboxygenstyle kdm kwin xmessage -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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