Comment 13 for bug 504771

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 504771] Re: [empathy] the font and the font size cannot be changed

Jamie, the fonts look relatively smaller with ubuntu theme than the normal
themes. Ubuntu theme is certainly using very small font size by default so
the patch would set those fonts to a bigger size 12px would look standard.
:)

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> wrote:

> Omer, this patch is not suitable for inclusion in Ubuntu. It simply
> hardcodes a different set of font sizes than other people would find
> annoying. The proper fix is to change empathy to allowing specifying a
> zoom level or the font size explicitly.
>
> I provided the above so people have a workaround until this can be
> properly fixed.
>
> --
> [empathy] the font and the font size cannot be changed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504771
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> in ubuntu.
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: New
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> There should be an option for the font family and the font size to be
> changed.
> The font in the chat window is too small to be read normally.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Fri Jan 8 16:20:24 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
> Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
>
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