Wishlist: Option to select our own fonts or font sizes in moovida.

[Richard Brooklyn]

Background:
I'm attempting to build a computer to be installed into my car.

The set-up will consist of a Linux Ubuntu distribution (probably 9.10 when it's released) and will run on a 7 inch screen, running a resolution of 600x480 (or there abouts).

In order to simulate this environment, I have set-up my Laptop with the software I intend to install. The laptop is currently running in 800x600, and moovida is struggling to cope with this resolution.

Issue:
Whilst everything is rendered correctly, the fonts are painfully small on the screen I already have. This will be made worse when I move everything to the 7 inch screen.

Suggested fix:
The ability to specify our own font sizes in the moovida.conf file should fix this. I can only see comments for the subtitle font sizes, but not the actual interface font sizes. Adding this should make moovida easier on the eyes are lower resolutions.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Read here https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+bug/396223/comments/3 for a way to edit the styles.

The whole of Moovida UI is CSS-based so editing the respective styles will get you what you want.

Also CC yourself to https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+bug/257312 to know when you'll be able to provide your own style files.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Additionally if you want to play with font sizes, have a look at elisa-plugins/elisa/plugins/pigment/graph/text.py.
This is where the conversion from the pre-defined set of values (e.g. small, medium, large, ...) to actual font sizes is done, so you may be able to tweak this conversion to your liking.

[Richard Brooklyn (rbrooklyn)]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I edited /usr/share/pyshared/elisa/plugins/pigment/graph/text.py to change the default font size to x-large at line 38:
         self.font_size = "x-large"

However, this only works if moovida isn't allowed to update. As soon as moovida updates to version 1.0.7 the font sizes go back to the default. Erasing ~/.moovida causes the changes to take affect, and, naturally puts moovida back to 1.0.1

So I assume that ~/.moovida contains a replacement file, but I'm not able to figure out where this file is.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

The updated egg is located in ~/.moovida/plugins, and is unpacked into ~/.python-eggs, so you should find the file there.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

If you want to make the change persistent (until the next update of the pigment plugin), you should edit the file inplace in the egg (which itself is a standard zip file). Programs such as file-roller allow inplace editing.