[mythtv-users] Merge of OSD and Main themes causes WAF to Plummet

[Dan Armbrust]

I don't doubt that there are many difficult areas, which will horribly
break if fonts get too large in the current system.  But really, this
should only be impacting areas of the GUI that have hardcoded, static
text in a fixed size area.  Any area of the GUI that has dynamic, show
generated text already has to have a way to deal with text larger than
the allotted area.

There are many areas that should not care one lick about the font size.

For example, a list of episodes.  The only effect making the font
bigger for a list of episodes is that the scrolling list would get
longer, and a couple more letters would be chopped off the right edge,
if the episode name is too long.  Which it already has to do if the
episode name is too long.

It seems that at a minimum, the font sizes could be increased, as
desired by the user, up until the point where the font increase will
cause something to not fit in the area allotted by the theme.  The
font would be effectively capped dynamically at a particular level,
rather than simply specified in the theme.  Heck, this would even fix
broken themes.... If a theme specified a 14pt font, but in this
particular field, the label only fits if we use a 13pt font -
automatically set it to 13.

In my particular setup, 99% of the text that I want bigger could be
made bigger without breaking anything.  Especially in the OSD area.
And it isn't like I want to go from 10pt font to 24pt.  I want to go
up to about 12.  I shouldn't have to learn how to write (or edit) a
theme to do this.

Dan