On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:38 -0700, Erich Schubert wrote: > Package: gaim-guifications > Version: 2.10-1 > Severity: minor > > Hi, > My screen has 135 dpi, so I have rather big fonts. Unfortunately, the > popup box sizes of the default are so small, every text is abbreviated.. > I often see messages like "Mi....kl" and then in the next line "signe..."... > that makes them pretty useless for me... :-( > > The themes should either use pixel-sized fonts, or not use pixel-sized > windows, but ones that scale with your screen resolution... > The default theme might be fine. I havn't thoroughly tested all of > them...
This is a fundamental flaw in the design. We can't scale according to fonts because of many reasons, but on that comes to mind is a buddy on msn who has an insanely long friendly name. If we scaled to fit all that text, the notification would take up a good portion of your screen. So instead of that, I opted to have it be the size of the image, which of course is up to the theme developer, who probably isn't using that high of a resolution nor has a dpi of 135. Which of course is going to lead into such behavior. So basically what it comes down to is that I chose to take the lesser of two evils route. Although I am hoping to come up with a better solution at some point and time. > Also in my opinion, the defaults should be less verbose... why popup a > message already if a user is typing... thats overkill. Just enable a > reasonable set of default messages (logon, messaged, signoff). > If its popping up to much, its just annoying. This is up to Tollef, the guifications debian packager, to decide. The packages I produce will always have all notifications disabled, since whenever I play with a new piece of software would rather have to turn something off, than to dig around and find out that it can do something else. -- Gary Kramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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