xffm fonts scaling

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:30, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi Edscott,
> 
> Even the smallest font in xffm is bigger than my default font, so I
> don't buy your argument about default font size being too large :)

Apparently you are trying to buy something not for sale :-) You did not
understand my point. I'm attaching two screen shots. In the first screen
shot is a big icon view. If the fonts are any smaller, the space is just
wasted because the row height is determined by the icon. In the second
screen shot, all the columns  fit into the xffm window without resizing.
This is not possible if font resizing is not done.

It would be nice if you understand why no font resizing is annoying to
me, just as I understand why font resizing is annoying to you. :-) 

AFAICT, an option to turn off font rescaling should keep everybody
happy, but it requires an extra translation line so the change would not
quite fit into 4.0.2, but rather apply to 4.1, unless you have any other
idea. 

Regards,

Edscott  




Granted, to be perfect the code would need to use the font size, window
size, and what visible columns
 where you can see that with the small icons all the columns fit into
the same size window as w
> 
> Take care,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 18:31, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:18, Olivier FOURDAN wrote:
> > > > I choose my fonts carefully, so that they are easy to read. I would  
> > > > really prefer xffm to use the default gtk font size.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I'll second that. This behaviour is fairly annoying IMHO.
> > 
> > The problem is that when I click the toolbar button to change view, I do
> > it toggle quickly between views with more or less columns. By making the
> > fonts smaller with smaller icons, I can see all columns (date, owner,
> > mode) without resizing the window or scrolling horizontally. On making
> > the icons bigger, the text grows so that it fills the empty space left
> > by the absent columns.
> > 
> > I can understand why the behaviour bothers you guys. So we need a fix to
> > keep everybody happy. 
> > 
> > I can think of enabling the fontsize changes *only* when the the change
> > view button is pressed. Or maybe just a preferences checkmenu item
> > "Enable font rescaling". Any other suggestions? 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Olivier.
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