On Monday 19 February 2018 20:32:13 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 19 February 2018 20:47:06 Felix Miata wrote:
E. Liddell composed on 2018-02-19 19:15 (UTC-0500):
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:49:16 -0500 Felix Miata wrote:
For me, the wiki page above is quite sufficient, once the target distro installation has been completed. The harder part is finding that page in the first place. From https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Trinity_Desktop_Environment it's not obvious to me that
TDE Documentation
following
Main page and Recent changes
is how to eventually find it. The left column on that page needs to be wider so that the link is not split over two lines when its font is forced to a legible size.
How large a font size do you need for this to be "legible" to you? I'm asking as the person who created the modified skin for the TDE wiki--I assumed that 11pt bold Arial/Libre Sans would be sufficient for most people using a normal-sized screen (that is, not a phone or very small tablet), but if a lot of people are having problems, I might have to see about revising it.
11pt physical would be a fine and dandy size in that context, but specifying 11pt in any "current" web browser other than one using the KHTML engine gets you 11px, which can be vastly different from 11pt, depending on screen density. CSS since 2.1 or thereabouts made the px unit exactly equal to the pt unit, making spec-compliant browsers unable to specify accurate physical sizes unless physical screen density is equal to 96 DPI. KHTML (Konq) never complied with this spec, while Gecko browsers do offer a workaround for those willing to write custom rules using its proprietary mozmm unit.
If you s/11pt/.917rem/ in #mw-navigation on screen.css:64 you should get a close approximation of 11pt "physical" size if the near universal default 16px/12pt remains in effect in the browser in use, and if you are using any moderately recent 100% spec-compliant browser (which excludes Konq, which has no rem unit support).
However, as long as you retain the 170px sidebar width, you'll find the same problem with overflow I see here as the user's screen density deviates above 96 DPI. s/170px/10.625rem/ for div#mw-panel in screen.css:590 might be enough to fix the sidebar width, but doing that would undoubtedly create need for other sizing rule adjustments.
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tdeCSS20180219.gif shows what I see. 11px CSS equates to 30.25% of my browser's default 12pt (20px) size.
To put that into further perspective, running firefox on wheezy with 1920x1080 screen, I have to hit the ctrl+ 6 times to get it up to a really comfortable reading size on the wiki's front page for these old eyes. It starts out with characters nominally 3/32" tall. Readable if I lean in to bring my trifocals into focus, but not pleasantly so.
Ah, yeah ... I feel ya. I've got old eyes, too, and now I need special glasses to work at the computer screen.
For what it's worth ... I set my fonts at 17-15-13 pts, using Georgia for my serif; and make all my screens display either yellow or green font against a dark background - except on those rare occasions when I actually care enough to see what the web designer intended, e.g., when a friend asks me to check out a web page that he or she designed. High-contrast screens make the screen more readable, too; but I imagine that you've already tried that.
Television and computer screens keep getting bigger, but it seems that the fonts keep getting smaller.
Bill