Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:26:03 +0100 Peter Flynn said: > On 24/07/18 05:06, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:31:16 +0100 Peter Flynn said: > > > >> On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: > >>> I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). >

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Drew
"App authors have got to*want* to do the right thing: at the moment they are largely unaware of the problem." > ///Peter After all these years they remain unaware of the problem? Like other issues where window managers, browsers and websites appear to be unable to communicate with each

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Peter Flynn
On 24/07/18 05:06, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:31:16 +0100 Peter Flynn said: > >> On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: >>> I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). >>> Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 07/24/2018 05:11 PM, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:43:06 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: On 07/24/2018 11:26 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:18:49 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: On 07/24/2018 06:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:43:06 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: > On 07/24/2018 11:26 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:18:49 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: > > > >> > >> On 07/24/2018 06:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >>> actually no. this is where

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 10:43:06 BST Pierre Couderc wrote: > On 07/24/2018 11:26 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:18:49 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: > >> On 07/24/2018 06:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >>> actually no. this is where users

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 07/24/2018 11:26 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:18:49 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: On 07/24/2018 06:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: actually no. this is where users and many toolkits and apps get it totally wrong. so you specify font size.

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:18:49 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: > > > On 07/24/2018 06:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > > > actually no. this is where users and many toolkits and apps get it totally > > wrong. so you specify font size. what about icons and other elements then? > >

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 07/24/2018 06:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: actually no. this is where users and many toolkits and apps get it totally wrong. so you specify font size. what about icons and other elements then? that is precisely why efl just uses a "scale" factor. a single number (1.0

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:31:16 +0100 Peter Flynn said: > On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: > > I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). > > Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself > > using "scaling". > > > > But I have problems with many

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 07/23/2018 09:31 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself using "scaling". But I have problems with many applications, vlc,thunderbird

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Peter Flynn
On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: > I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). > Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself > using "scaling". > > But I have problems with many applications, vlc,thunderbird for > example. Maybe it is because I

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:25:19 +0200 Pierre Couderc said: > Thank you Mick, I try that. > > Raster, please respect the old men... ;) I'm old! well over the hill by now. :) > > On 07/23/2018 11:09 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:16:04 +0100 Mick said: > >

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Mick
On Monday, 23 July 2018 10:25:19 BST Pierre Couderc wrote: > Thank you Mick, I try that. > > Raster, please respect the old men... ;) I just discovered on qt5, qtconfig of qt4 has been replaced with qt5ct and qtconfig itself is now a symlink to qtchooser, so you would need qt5ct to adjust

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Pierre Couderc
Thank you Mick, I try that. Raster, please respect the old men... ;) On 07/23/2018 11:09 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:16:04 +0100 Mick said: On Monday, 23 July 2018 07:44:29 BST Pierre Couderc wrote: I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:16:04 +0100 Mick said: > On Monday, 23 July 2018 07:44:29 BST Pierre Couderc wrote: > > I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). > > Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself using > > "scaling". > > Yep, I suffer the same

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Mick
On Monday, 23 July 2018 07:44:29 BST Pierre Couderc wrote: > I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). > Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself using > "scaling". Yep, I suffer the same here. They say eye sight is the second thing to go with age

[e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Pierre Couderc
I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself using "scaling". But I have problems with many applications, vlc,thunderbird  for exemple. Maybe it is because I miss some freedesktop utility or settings ? I use