On 2013-06-15 12:12 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
The point is that there is only so much space for text in the UI. Have you tried running anaconda in Japanese or German at 800x600? When there's too much text on a spoke (those are both languages which use a lot of characters to say the same thing compared to English), the display of the spoke becomes entirely corrupted.
Who's forcing anyone to run a native display mode during installation? The Mandriva/Mageia approach seems rather sensible: announce a limited choice of display resolutions at initialization and in the docs, then use the highest of the limited choices even when the device's native mode is much higher. It/they default to 800x600, offering text and 1024x768 as alternatives, and plant windows sized to 1024x768 in the middle of a larger background for any who figure out how to (unnecessarily) get X into any mode higher than 1024x768 during the OS installation process.
Well, no, that's absolutely useless and just reviving a decade old bikeshed. That is not what I was planning to do at all. Fixed 96dpi is a ship that's sailed.
It can't be denied that forcing is doing what it's doing. Whether to do anything about it directly is a different matter. If there's an easier way to keep text from shrinking as display size increases, fine; but don't continue to penalize people who follow a logical course of action when they need or want bigger. Text that shrinks as available space for it increases is idiotic.
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