Fonts are too large for small res screen, dialogues truncate

Bug #237631 reported by Chris Gregan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Mobile Edition
Fix Committed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

<Build: UME RC1>
<Environment: Q1U and Jax10>

Summary:
Fonts are too large for small screen devices. This causes most dialogues in the release to be truncated severely. Reducing the font size would greatly improve the experience on small devices.

Steps to Reproduce:
Launch any application (Update Manager) on a small resolution

Expected result:
Font is reduced so dialogues are not truncated

Actual result:
Fonts are too large. Dialogues are truncated.

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Chris Gregan (cgregan) wrote :

Possible fix is to shrink the font for the default theme:
/usr/share/theme/<theme name>/gtkrc-2.0/gtkrc
Search for "font". will find sizes. modify them.
edit /usr/share/themes/<theme name>/matchbox/theme.xml

Changed in ubuntu-mobile:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche) wrote :

note that the matchbox theme controls the font size for dialog titles.

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Dave Morley (davmor2) wrote :

The fix Chris recommends works on the kvm version of UME.

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Chris Gregan (cgregan) wrote :

Fix tested on Q1. Font change does not affect the user experience on larger device while preventing many of the dialogue truncations on smaller devices. Some fine tuning may be needed to make the font perfect for all devices, and of course some sort of auto detection linked to resolution would be great, but for now, the user experience is greatly improved by this adjustment.

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Adilson Oliveira (agoliveira) wrote :

Changes added to the mobile theme and uploaded to PPA for experimentation.

Changed in ubuntu-mobile:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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