Font size too big on phone, and display too tall with devicePixelRatio

[Andrea Cimitan]

as summary, needs some size adjustments with devicePixelRatio*

* To enable manually, easiest is to edit /etc/environment and add the line "QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=2", and reboot.

[Stefano Verzegnassi (verzegnassi-stefano)]

My 2 cents. Would it make more sense to use the font size of a UITK Label (textSize: Label.Medium) as a reference unit, and provide only a setting for a multiplier of the resulting pixelSize?

That way the font size would be automatically adjusted according to GRID_UNIT_PX or QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO variables, and it would behave consistently with the rest of the platform.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SB (emehntehtt)]

After OTA-9 fonts are too large on Terminal, should be size 11 on my phone but it appears bigger, also it seems to be a wider problem as font it too large in messaging application too. When you open a sms the sender's name is too big.

[Niklas Wenzel (nikwen)]

There have been some comments on how that was fixed in other apps in the following mailing list thread: https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg17950.html

They opted for font.pixelSize in combination with units.gu() instead of using font.pointSize.

However, units.gu() probably isn't the best option. Stefano is right in my opinion and we should probably use something based around the FontUtils component [1].

I'll give this a try as soon as I find some time. :)

[1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04.1/Ubuntu.Components.FontUtils/

[Niklas Wenzel (nikwen)]

Can't add this to the MP, so I'm adding it here.

[Niklas Wenzel (nikwen)]

Another one.

[Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-core-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-terminal-app at revision 165, scheduled for release in ubuntu-terminal-app, milestone 2014-12-11