Remember the text size automatically

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

Since there is a "Text size" combobox in recipes' "view" window, there is no point in having the same combobox in the preferences dialog; just remember what the user selected the last time he viewed a recipe.

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

Is this really such a good idea? The preferences setting is the default for viewed recipes while the setting in the actual recipe is for that particular view. Are you suggesting we store the setting per-recipe or as a global value based on the last value picked in a particular recipe? You can have multiple recipes open at once and at different text sizes, for example.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

I wonder. What I was thinking was that it would be simpler (both in code and in interaction) to simply have one global value that changes based on what the user used last (so if you have multiple windows open, it also affect the other windows)...

Why would a user want to have multiple recipes with different text sizes? Isn't that "text size" setting for compensating eyesight or the computer screen size/DPI or am I misunderstanding its purpose?

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

After a lot of thought this seems fine. I think we can just link the dropdown in each recipe view to the GConf value, and keep the setting in the preferences dialog as well. All of them would just be linked to the same value and all would updated when the GConf value changes. So:

 * Changing the value in prefs will update currently showing recipes
 * Changing the value in one recipe updates all other recipes
 * Changing the value in a recipe updates the preferences dialog value

This should be fairly easy to implement, and if you agree I can take a stab at it later today.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Go ahead :)