Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

Nino,

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:09 +0100, Nuno J. Silva wrote:

> On 2011-06-20, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>
> > lee [mailto:lee@yun.yagibdah.de]  wrote:
> >
> > > Just make the list larger, as screen space permits.
> > Lee, I agree with the commenter here.
> >
> > I think it is also a bug when the Open dialog has a pull-down list
> > that extends beyond the edge of the screen.  My understanding is they
> > are supposed to move left, down, or up, to avoid that.  All the
> > well-behaved applications I run do that.  In fact, I take advantage of
> > that fact in arranging to take screen shots where dialogs and pop-ups
> > are forced inside the frame of the application.
> >
> > Also, I don't know what the minimum dimension of screen for successful
> > use of LibreOffice might be, but the list we're talking about could
> > easily exceed it.  The bigger problem is that it appears to be random
> > so folks have no clue that they should perhaps keep looking once they
> > find a likely suspect (that happens to not work).
>
> It is kind of random. 
>
> The problem is that the useful display area depends on the display
> physical size, the defined screen resolution (as in density of pixels,
> DPI), the screen size (number of pixels, what's commonly called
> resolution) and the text size. (And also on the way LibO reacts to these
> variables.)
>
> A subproblem now is with the new netbooks, where manufacturers try to
> make "more space" available by increasing the resolution (DPI) of the
> display, while the OS runs at 96 DPI.
>
> This leads some users to just use the 96 DPI and the default, others to
> increase font size so things become readable (thus somehow reducing the
> available space) and others to actually set the resolution to the
> correct value (which will reduce even more the available space).
>
> Yesterday I was pointed to a 3-year-old weblog post by Federico Mena
> Quintero, about how font sizes are affected by this problem:
>
>   http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2007-01.html#font-sizes
>
> -- 
> Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
> gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

Thanks for the link. I would add another group to his users, those who
are old enough to need reading glasses or bifocals would prefer a larger
font on screen.

I have seen some webpages use a very small font that is was impossible
to read.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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