Review Request 115612: Apply zoom level to font size.

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,


2014-02-10 9:39 GMT+01:00 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.
>

what exactly do you mean with "most other programs"? Web browsers come to
my mind, but since every page uses its own custom font anyway, I don't
think that these can really be compared to Dolphin.

I see that you can change the font size in text editors like Kate or in
Konsole with Ctrl+mouse wheel, but there the font is the only thing whose
size can be changed, so I think that this comparison is not valid either.



> 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.
>


OK, I see. I understand this use case, but I think it's a corner case.
Linking the icon size to the font size would probably do more harm than
good because it is unexpected in most other use cases, as I have tried to
point out earlier.

Maybe the best solution would be an application that runs in the background
and that changes the global font settings if a particular display is
connected to the computer. (However, note that Dolphin does currently not
respect font settings changes unless it is restarted, see
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329186).

Cheers,
Frank
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