System Settings tool is not resizable, and does not expand automatically when setting font size for visually impaired users

[Jeff Lane ]

I'm getting older, and tiny fonts of high res screens (1900x1280) are becoming a pain to read. So I thought I'd make use of the tools in ubuntu that exist for those with impairments. So I opened the System Settings tool and from there, launched "Universal Access".

In Universal Access, I bumped the system font size up from "Normal" (whatever that is) to "Larger" (whatever that is which is slightly bigger than "Normal"). This made the system text larger and easier to read (text in the top bar and text within the system settings tool, at least, didn't affect text within Chrome, but it did change the size of text in Terminator as well :)

HOWEVER, then I noticed that the System Settings tool itself had not expanded in size to accommodate the larger font size, nor was that window even resizable. The end effect is that it clips text off making the icons make less sense.

Expected Behaviour: When system font size is made larger, the window will increase in size to account for this and ensure that the text for all app icons is readable.

What really happened: Font size changed, window size did not, some text cut off and unreadable to users with visual impairment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Mon Aug 13 08:47:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)