Add ability to change notify-osd font size
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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notify-osd (Ubuntu) |
In Progress
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Wishlist
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Steve Dodier-Lazaro |
Bug Description
The new notification system introduced in Ubuntu Jaunty is very nice, however I want to put my suggestions on the table for consideration.
The font size for the notification bubble seemingly cannot be changed to allow for users with visual difficulties (such as myself) to more easily read the contents. After doing some research I have discovered that the standard font sizes for the notification on screen display are as follows:
Title: application font
Body: 0.8x application font
This to me is very restrictive. I have my application font size set to 12 as it is the easiest for me and gives me the best combination of screen real-estate and usability. However, the notification font is far too small for me to read at a glance without using the compiz enhanced zoom plugin to read what is going on.
I would suggest maybe adding an ability to set font sizes for notifications in one of two places; the pop-up notifications settings manager in system-
Obviously, this would require a method of resizing the bubble to fit the contents depending on the size of the font used, but I do not believe this would be complicated to achieve.
I do not believe this would complicate the system for users but it will give them greater control over how their system functions.
Related branches
Changed in notify-osd: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in notify-osd: | |
assignee: | nobody → macslow |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in notify-osd: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
assignee: | Mirco Müller (macslow) → Steve Dodier (sidi) |
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Mirco Müller (macslow) → Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
no longer affects: | notify-osd |
This is something for a11y and the design team to discuss. At some point we had it looking like this
summary = 1.2 * application font-size
body = 1.0 * application font-size
but the design team suggested the current set of values we use now.