Text font size still too small on all scopes and no way to adjust
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Canonical System Image |
Confirmed
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High
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Pat McGowan | ||
Ubuntu UX |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi I am using the MX4 with OTA10 installed. To be honest the scope text size is still just to small for normal use. The only way to read it without perfect lighting conditions is to go directly to the web page, (BBC , Softpedia etc are all far clearer, with larger fonts). I think this defeats the point of scopes, as you can only read only the bold black headlines easily.
One option could be to have a global text size adjustment in the settings menu, or at least the option for two font sizes and darker colours. If you add a background picture (as normal user would expect to) , the problem is even worse.
To be honest I think the text size issue (and light grey text colour) , plus no option to add scope backgrounds (pictures etc) is far more important than new options such as VPN etc added in OTA10. Once Ubuntu touch enters the real user market, as other linux OS s have, your normal user will look first to aesthetics and basic operation / look. The simple things have to be right and interesting to teenagers and older users.
Sorry for the hard words, I am a real fan of Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch and would love to see the phone / tablet software succeed.
Also have reserved a BQ M10, very excited about convergence and hope it can be applied to the MX4, BQ phones via Miracast soon.
Thanks for the hard work,
Regards
Dave H
I agree the combination of the light gray with the very small font size and high screen resolutions makes text illegible in certain scopes and apps. Another good example is message arrival time in the messaging app.