[mythtv] Ticket #1549 - Font size preferences are ignored in most places

[Steve Hill]

I opened ticket #1549 at the weekend, which has been invalidated without 
any comment as to why it's invalid

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The font size preferences in the Appearance settings are ignored in lots 
of places (EPG, program finder, watch recordings, mythwelcome, mythvideo, 
mythgallery, lots of other places). This means that if you have the 
physical display size set correctly in xorg.conf on a very low DPI display 
(e.g. a 28" PAL TV) these fonts are rendered unreadably small and there 
appears to be no way to change them.
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This _is_ a problem for 2 reasons:

1. At the moment there is no way to change the font size for much of the 
UI without kludging the display's DPI in the X config.  (This is bad - no 
application should require the user to lie about their setup, especially 
in a global configuration file that will adversely affect all other 
applications)

2. Myth provides controls to change the font sizes used in the UI - why 
provide these controls at all if they are just going to be ignored by most 
of the UI.  Very counter-intuitive - if a control is provided the user 
will expect it to actually work.

I'm ok with tickets being invalidated if they are genuinely invalid, but 
in that case the report needs to have some comment left in it as to why 
the ticket is believed to be invalid.  I can't see a way of adjusting 
these font sizes - if there isn't a control for adjusting the font sizes 
then shouldn't there be one and if there is one already maybe it needs to 
be moved so it's next to all the other font size controls.

(Before anyone gets defensive, I'm not saying the ticket *is* valid, I'm 
just asking for insight and discussion on why it might not be).

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  - Steve
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