On 2012-11-30 23:55 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 02:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
It's just as bad as F17's: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701190
The problem is the default size Anaconda fonts for the display's native resolution are too small, and overall, whitespace is massive. By reducing resolution or forcing DPI up, fonts can be made acceptable. The problem is neither workaround for too small fonts is available in Anaconda, at least, not explained anywhere I've been able to find.
My workaround is to start installation on a smaller 1280x1024 LCD, and after Anaconda starts, move the VGA cable to a larger CRT that Anaconda would otherwise set to 1920x1440. This shouldn't be necessary.
Well, I've never heard anyone else complain about it, or seen it mentioned in any reviews. 'Too small' seems a very subjective judgement. They seem big enough to me.
Open http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-dejavu.html in Chromium. Measure the width of the black "inch" to get a frame of reference to compare what you see to what I see. Here on a 20" 1600x1200 LCD it measures 15/16". The (19.8" actual; nominal 21" NEC FE2111SB) CRT Anaconda has running at 1920x1440 connected to the F18 installer measures 1/8" shorter (12.125" vs 12.0" tall), for all practical purposes the same size as the LCD I'm writing this on. The closest match on http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-dejavu.html to the description text for the various selections on the Software Selection page is the uppermost 8pt line. It's actually measurably larger than the 8pt line, but much much smaller than the 9pt line. By comparison, my browser defaults in the Geckos I actually use to browse with are a closest match to Chromium's display of the uppermost 14pt line, while my UI text on the desktop is closest to the 12pt line. Figuring the actual size of the installer's text to be about 8.2pt on the Chromium browser scale, it's about 67% of the size of my browsers' minimum size settings, 47% of the size of my desktop's UI text, and 34% of comfortable, my browser's "14pt" (on the Chromium scale) default; where "size" is a function of area (height & width), not the nominal sizes used by CSS. It's actually worse than 34% of comfortable. NAICT, the actual px size is 8px @1920x1440, and it takes 9px at a minimum to fully form most alpha characters on a computer display. Anaconda makes that text look like scribble.
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