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Re: A font size patch for large screens.
Moses,
>
> A buddy of mine has a PowerBook, those are sweet machines. Only problem
> is they get to hot for my lap (yee-ouch).
Yeah, this was true for a while. They did something slick in the OS
going from 8.5 to 8.6 to reduce power consumption and temperature.
The PowerBook running MacOS 8.6 is pretty comfortable, though it was a
bit toasty under 8.5. If you are running LinuxPPC, you had better
just put it on a table...
The newer Bronze ones are supposedly lots cooler.
>
> Yeah, font sizes are always a pain. A size of 16 looks great on my
> Linux box but is it flat out wrong on other systems. As long as
> the default is "close", thats all I care about. The current default
> of 9 is unreadable on my system.
>
> > Thanks for the patch. The idea is great, but I don't think the
> > algorithm is quite right, however. I think the laptop case is an
> > extreme example of many pixels + small physical size. I have a Sun
> > display at 1280x1024, and 16 is way too big a font for the default.
> > 14 is okay, though a bit on the biggish side, 11 is really pretty
> > good, though 9 is definately too small.
>
> Change away. I would love to test out any new algo.
>
Okay, I'll fool around with this when I get half a mo', I am pretty
busy right now.
Jim