Created attachment 314400 [details] Patch to double the built-in font size. Description of problem: Current alevt has built-in fonts which are quite small, even with 1024x768 resolution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alevt-1.6.2-5.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Always, of course. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: I'll attach a couple of (alternative) patches. Each of these will provide double or bigger font size. I currently use the first one (double font size). This will also need, in the spec file, something like: BuildRequires: /usr/bin/convert Clearly, with double font size, there could be problems with lower resolutions, like 800x600 or 640x480.
Created attachment 314401 [details] Patch to add bigger fonts to alevt.
Any news on this side? I got a new, larger, monitor, and "alevt" is smaller than before... :-( Thanks, pg
Piergiorgio would you add a screen shot ? I have a 19'' CRT and 1280x1024 and it seems almost decent. At this moment I'm not sure how to fix this issue, I'm not really comfortable of providing a separate package (with double-fonts). Modifying the code to support multiple fonts seems nearly impossible.
Created attachment 325573 [details] Screenshot of alevt on desktop This is a screenshot of alevt alone in the middle of the desktop. The monitor is 1680x1050, so 16x10, with 22" diagonal. It is not unreadable, but at least 50% bigger will be, for me at least, better. I guess one problem with fonts is the teletext has its own set, so I can understand it is not so easy to have dynamic scaling. On the other hand, on a 1920x1200 24" monitor, things will be really unreadable. One possible solution would be to have the two font maps (normal and double) in the package and some user settings, like $HOME/.alevtrc, where it is specified which one to take. Or with a command line option. Actually alevt has a "-geometry" option, but it does only smaller windows... Thanks again, pg
alevt-1.6.2-8.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/alevt-1.6.2-8.fc8
alevt-1.6.2-8.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/alevt-1.6.2-8.fc9
alevt-1.6.2-9.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/alevt-1.6.2-9.fc10
Added support for double font. Alevt now takes -doublefont (or -df) for doubling font size.
I just tried out the new version, from Koji, and it works perfectly! Thank you so much, well done! This is really a very good solution! I guess we can let the issue close. Thanks again, pg
you're welcome. next time you test a package in body please add karma. thank you.
(In reply to comment #10) > next time you test a package in body please add karma. Uhm, what does it mean? It sounds like some inside joke, but I can imagine it is some "slang" I do not get... Thanks, pg
(In reply to comment #11) > > next time you test a package in body please add karma. > > Uhm, what does it mean? > > It sounds like some inside joke, but I can imagine it is some "slang" I do not > get... Sorry that was a typo what I meant was: When trying packages that were submitted through bodhi please add karma to those packages. Bodhi uses a 'karma' system to promote packages to stable (nottice Add comment field). More info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UpdatesSystem/Bodhi-info-DRAFT
alevt-1.6.2-9.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update alevt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-10762
alevt-1.6.2-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update alevt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-10779
alevt-1.6.2-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update alevt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-10888
alevt-1.6.2-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
alevt-1.6.2-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
alevt-1.6.2-9.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.