Empathy chat windows ignore screen DPI settings.

[Alistair Buxton]

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Empathy chat windows ignore screen/system DPI setting, giving inconsistent font sizes. To illustrate the problem I set my DPI to 50 for the attached screenshot, while using a custom theme which I coded myself, which uses a 10pt font. Since the font size is specified in points not pixels, it should change with the DPI.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

In this screenshot I use my normal 96 DPI. As you can see the chat window has not changed at all.

This is the line of HTML used to format the messages from the theme:

<p style="font-size:10pt; margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 0;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">(%time{%H:%m:%S}%) %sender%:</span> %message%</p>

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, which version of empathy are you using? could you please try with the latest one from the telepathy ppa? https://edge.launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Sorry, I am using the PPA already. The problem seems to be common to all apps which use webkit for html rendering.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thank for your sending this bug upstream to the bugzilla tracker. marking as triaged

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is fixed upstream now.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04 now. Thanks for reporting.