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[Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>]

Florian,

It may turn out that an option to adjust a (single) value is a
problematic idea, from a point of usability and UI consistency.
Probably there will be dependencies that cannot be easily met via
scaling through a single variable (e.g. double font size may fit
together better with only 1.5x sized icons), and convergence means
additional complexity (the UI should look good and be usable on
different screen sizes and touch and non-touch screens).

As by how I see the problem today, this is a comprehensive task for
UI/UX designers to come up with a couple of usable device themes.
Those themes should then, one day, be allowed to switch by a user
option.

Peter


2016-02-13 10:20 GMT+01:00 Florian Boucault:
> Adjusting the font sizes alone is a bad idea and was not part of the plan.
> Doing so will usually break UIs in unpredictable ways. The reliable way to
> scale fonts up or down is to scale the entire UI up or down with the
> environment variable GRID_UNIT_PX. We will have an option in the system
> settings app to do so one day.
>
>
> Le sam. 13 févr. 2016 10:08,  <kaabud-lp@y...> a écrit :
>>
>> While we wait for the proper settings to be implemented some day, do you
>> know how one could adjust the font sizes /with/ some fiddling in the
>> terminal today? Where would one start looking for related configurations?