Questions regarding UI Options: Minimum text size

[Gary Thompson]

Michelle,

I think that is a great solution.  It may be worth adding a balloon help 
text to the Minimum Text Size label that states the behavior, something 
like: "Any text smaller than this size will be increased to the size you 
specify.  All larger text sizes will remain unaffected."

-Gary

Michelle D'Souza wrote:
> One of the reasons that we changed from having a text size setting to 
> having a minimum text size setting was because it's important for 
> people to be able to specify the smallest they can see. If we only set 
> a base size, things that are scaled down from there may not be 
> readable for the user.  The current experience is not correct however, 
> it does do more then just set a base size - it also removes FSS 
> classes that scale down the text size.
>
> I have a suggestion for a possible implementation change. We have 
> decided that it is important for integrators to specify their defaults 
> in order for UIOptions to behave correctly. We could add a setting in 
> the defaultSiteSettings called 'baseTextSize'. Then setting the 
> minimum text size could check if the size is larger then the 
> integrator specified base text size. If it is, we would set the base 
> font for the user to the size they had specified and remove the scaled 
> down text sizes. If not we would only remove the scaled down text 
> sizes that are scaled to smaller then the base text size and leave 
> everything else the same.
>
> Michelle
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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"
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -- 
>> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>> Software Designer, Fluid Project
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
>>
>>
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> Michelle D'Souza
> Software Developer, Fluid Project
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
> University of Toronto
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