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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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charlesalva@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 15/10/11 19:58:
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> dear unity developer team,
> 
> could you please reduce the default font and ui size of unity and 
> ubuntu overall, they really taking much screen real estate, or at 
> least give us option to reduce the dpi or ppi setting like the one
> in windows.
> 
> after playing with unity and ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, and changing
> back to windows, it feels that windows font and ui size are much
> better, perhaps because it's smaller. for people who love big size
> font and ui still could enlarge them from dpi or ppi setting. in
> windows there's a 96% ppi, 100% ppi, and 125% ppi. i also believe
> in mac osx, the font and ui size are almost identical small with
> windows.
> 
> ...


What would help here is for someone to make a screenshot comparison of
the same windows, laid out in exactly the same positions, on Ubuntu,
Windows, and OS X.

For example, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, and Apple Mail showing
the same message in the same Imap mailbox; the Adobe Reader
Preferences window; and the Calculator window.

We might find that the problem is partly font size, but partly also
size and padding of interface controls.

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