Review Request 115612: Apply zoom level to font size.

[Jonas Oscarsson]

Hi Frank,

No there hasn't been any discussion about this, I just thought it made more
sense if the whole view (including the text) followed the zoom level, as
the zoom works like this in most other programs.
In my specific case I just want to temporarily increase the size of the
whole view when I'm connected to the TV-set, as it's hard to both read the
text and see the icons from the couch, but I don't want to have to change
the settings each time I connect to the TV-set.
Maybe there is some easier way to accomplish this (with activities or
something like that), It just seemed logical to be able to do this as
easily as in the browser or konsole or editor, etc...

Best regards,
/Jonas


/Jonas Oscarsson


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac at googlemail.com
> wrote:

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> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115612/
>
> First of all, thanks for the patch.
>
> Has there been any discussion about this idea, maybe with usability or accessibility experts? If yes, please provide a link.
>
> From my point of view, you are trying to address a valid problem (the text is too small to read), but the solution is wrong. If a user cannot read the text, then they should adjust the font size in the settings, or even better, adjust their KDE-wide font settings and do not use any application-specific font settings.
>
> I see no reason to believe that the average user also wants an increased font size if they change the icon size. Note that the icon size can be chosen differently for each view mode and for the case that previews are enabled or disabled. Why should the font size be different for these cases?
>
> Moreover, the user may want to increase the icon size temporarily if they want to see a bit more detail in the previews for a number of images in a directory. It is very unlikely that a larger font is also wanted in that case.
>
>
> - Frank Reininghaus
>
> On February 10th, 2014, 7:17 a.m. UTC, Jonas Oscarsson wrote:
>   Review request for Dolphin.
> By Jonas Oscarsson.
>
> *Updated Feb. 10, 2014, 7:17 a.m.*
>  *Repository: * kde-baseapps
> Description
>
> Apply zoom level to font size, to be able to read the text not only see the icons when increasing the zoom-level.
>
>   Testing
>
> Zoom in and out.
>
>   Diffs
>
>    - dolphin/src/views/dolphinitemlistview.cpp (4799d76)
>
> View Diff <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115612/diff/>
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