On 9/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/15/2007 09:46 PM, Craig Huff wrote:<br><br><snip><br><br>> I went back into mythfrontend and drilled down through the menus from<br>> Utilities/Setup | Setup | Appearance and on the fifth dialog screen,<br>
> captioned QT, I discovered that the font sizes I had there (perhaps I<br>> had changed them in the dark ages of getting MythTV going?) were<br>> *way* smaller -- 6, 8, and 12 -- than the defaults shown in the help at
<br>> the bottom -- 12, 16, and 25. Things are looking much more readable<br>> in the mythfrontend settings dialogs now.<br><br>That setting allows you to select the QT (unthemed) font size. Most all<br>of MythTV uses themed fonts, so those settings have an effect only in a
<br>couple of places--primarily in mythtv-setup (but also in "pop-up"<br>dialogs like the "scaling theme images" and the MythVideo detailed<br>description (whatever it's called).<br><br>> IIRC, there was some recent
<br>> talk about how MythWelcome doesn't follow those settings, which would<br>> explain why the pop-up menu in MythWelcome and the settings screens<br>> are still too small font-wise. I don't recall what, if any, fix there
<br>> was to address these issues. How do I get them to use a larger font?<br>> <br><br> For those parts of MythTV that use a theme, the theme specifies the<br>font sizes. Some themes have more than one font size specified--a
<br>"default", a "small", and a "big" size. For these themes, you can<br>choose which is used with:<br><br>Font size<br> - default<br> - small<br> - big<br>default: TV, small: monitor, big
<br><br>(Where, TTBOMK, the help text means absolutely nothing as we don't<br>"guess" the value for it. The default is, appropriately, "default." We<br>/only/ use "small" or "big" if the user explicitly selects it.)
<br><br>You may want to try "big" to see if your theme specifies a "big" font.<br>Note that there are 2 "Font size" settings. One applies to the OSD and<br>the other applies to the (themed) UI.
<br><br>Mike<br></blockquote></div><br>Yes! MythWelcome's pop-up menu and settings dialog follow the OSD font<br>selection and MythFrontend follows the unthemed font selection. For those<br>following this thread, the OSD font selection is in the path:
<br>Utilities/Setup | Setup | TV Settings | Playback in the On-screen display page;<br>The unthemed font selection is in the path:<br>Utilities/Setup | Setup | Appearance in the Theme page.<br><br>Thanks again Mike!<br><br>
Craig.<br>