Questions regarding UI Options: Minimum text size

[Justin]

Hi I have made some comments below.

On 23-Mar-09, at 2:42 PM, a.cheetham at utoronto.ca wrote:

>
> I have a question about the meaning of "Minimum text size" in the UI  
> Options dialog.
>
> My understanding of the purpose of "Minimum text size" is to enlarge  
> things that are smaller than the desired minimum, but to leave alone  
> anything that is already larger than the minimum. The current  
> implementation does not do this.

If we did do this, what would happen if the initial base was 10 pt and  
I changed it to 50. I then found that 50 was too big and wanted to  
make it 30 pt. Would I have to reset everything and then change it  
back up to 30 pt.

>
>
> I've filed a JIRA about this that describes how to view the scenario:
>
>    http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2394
>
> I've discussed the implementation with Michelle and Jacob. It seems  
> that it isn't really technically possible to implement what I expect  
> "minimum text size" to do, as described above.
>
> My question is: If we can't do this, should we be offering to do it?
>
> Maybe given what we *can* technically do, the control should be  
> labelled "Base text size"

I this might be the way to go for now.

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>
> Thoughts?
>
> -- 
> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
>
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