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Messages App - make fonts configurable through settings #1148

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hughbarney opened this issue Dec 20, 2021 · 5 comments
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Messages App - make fonts configurable through settings #1148

hughbarney opened this issue Dec 20, 2021 · 5 comments

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@hughbarney
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Suggest we adopt the standard names for fonts on the system.
tiny, small, medium, large.

var tinySmall = "6x8";
var fontSmall = g.getFonts().includes("6x15")?"6x15":"6x8:2";
var fontMedium = g.getFonts().includes("12x20")?"12x20":"6x8:3"; // note uplifted to 6x8:3
var fontLarge = g.getFonts().includes("6x15")?"6x15:2":"6x8:4";

This will generally work as below (showing fallback height), 6x8:3 is a better choice for medium as fallback

none 0 0 // display nothing
tiny 6x8 8 6x8 8
small 6x15 15 6x8x2 16
medium 12x20 20 6x8x3 24
large 6x15:2 30 6x8:4 32

Next in the messages App the user gets to decide which of these fonts is used in
msgSource, msgTitle, msgBody

Personally I dont want src/ttitle in the message heading. I would just want a Medium size Title.

So I would select
msgSource: None
msgTitle: Medium
msgBody: Medium

@gfwilliams
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This could be related to #1145 ?

I feel like maybe we should have something provided globally maybe by bootloader that includes font names, then they could be easily changed?

@derikb
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derikb commented Feb 25, 2022

+1 to this. I just switched over to the new Android/Messages app yesterday and damn are the messages hard to read, the text is so small. While it wasn't the best experience in the gadgetbridge app to not get the full content or even source/name, at least I could see/read it. Now I get a lot of text that I can only read if I really hold it up to my face and squint at.

@gfwilliams
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Might be worth updating again, there is an option in settings to choose the minimum font size now :)

Actually I think this issue can actually be closed.

@derikb
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derikb commented Feb 25, 2022

Thanks, that helps. Though I still think for the notification screen those buttons are a LOT of real estate.

@gfwilliams
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Yes, there are a bunch of forum threads and issues about this and it's something that'll hopefully get looked at soon

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