Comment 27 for bug 335383

Allow me to provide another use case for this.

I'm preparing for a performance of live computer music in three days, and my collaborator and I wanted to use send-notify to display messages between us on my screen (which will be projected for the audience to see). The audience will not be able to read the messages unless the text is fairly large, but... some genius decided that the font size of a notification should be coupled to the font size of:

- All text in panels.
- All application menu bars.
- This even trickles into the default font size of GUI windows created the audio software (SuperCollider).

So, either the notification text is too small to read, or the rest of the screen looks perfectly ridiculous (and visible to the audience). I could imagine many in the audience would come away from the performance thinking, "Jeez, Ubuntu looks really terrible."

I know there are higher priority bugs to fix, and I know not everything can be fixed, but I just thought I would make you aware of yet one more user impact that this design "decision" has had.