MASTER regression after switching system font size to 13.333 pixel - fonts appear too large in some apps that do hand made font sizing - treating pixel units as point units
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evolution |
Fix Released
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Medium
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GNOME Terminal |
Fix Released
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Medium
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GtkHTML |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
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OpenOffice |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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brasero (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
evolution (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
gtkhtml3.14 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
libgnome (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Alexander Sack | ||
nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I wish to report that the change of default font sizes to 13.333px in libgnome 2.25.1-0ubuntu2 results, for me, in text in gnome-terminal and in thunderbird's folder and message-list panes which is excessively large, occupying far more screen real-estate than is practical, and being sufficiently large that it appears bold even when it is not bold.
The incongruous size is most evident in Thunderbird, where the folder-tree and message-list text is huge in comparison to the message-text pane.
I do not know why this change was made, but I need to point out that for users of my class (which I would consider to be "average desktop/
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: libgnome2-common 2.25.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libgnome
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
Related branches
tags: | added: 13.333 font fonts i386 |
tags: | removed: 13.333 font fonts |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
assignee: | nobody → asac |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → asac |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → asac |
summary: |
- Change to 13.333px is a regression for me - fonts far too large + regression - fonts too large for applications, that have custom font + handling and treat pixel units as point units |
summary: |
- regression - fonts too large for applications, that have custom font + regression - fonts too large for applications that do custom font handling and treat pixel units as point units |
Changed in libgnome (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in brasero (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
assignee: | asac → nobody |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → asac |
status: | Won't Fix → Triaged |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
assignee: | asac → nobody |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
assignee: | asac → nobody |
Changed in brasero (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → asac |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in openoffice: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gtkhtml: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gtkhtml: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Fix Released → Incomplete |
Changed in brasero (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Won't Fix → In Progress |
Changed in brasero (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in gtkhtml3.14 (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Won't Fix → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in brasero (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in gtkhtml: | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in gtkhtml: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in evolution: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
I see this bug too. I had to use 10px fonts in order to get something usable. See bug #327386.