fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

[Andre.Bisseret]

Le 2 mars 10 à 18:15, François Chaplais a écrit :

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> Le 2 mars 2010 à 17:56, Andre.Bisseret a écrit :
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>>> I have read this thread on Apple mail, and at some point (pun  
>>> intended) I realized I could zoom and de-zoom the messages by  
>>> pinching or spreading my fingers on the touchpad, from the hardly  
>>> visible to waaay too enlarged.
>>> Now, if rev could incorporate this *other* side of the spectrum...
>>> But I guess this would imply switching to cocoa.
>>>
>>> François
>>>
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>> François,
>> On Mac with the control key down, (either with the touchpad or the  
>> scroll wheel of the mouse), all what is on the screen in enlarged,  
>> including the rev stacks, isn'it?
>>
>> Amitiés de Grenoble
>> André
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> It does not work on my latest MBP, snow 10.6.2.
> Isn't that from the "universal access" system control panel?

Ah! yes; I just caught a glance (first time I go there;-)) In  
"Préférences système" / accès universel there is a pane "Vue" where it  
is possible to set the zoom
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> To go further, and this has been mentioned in this list, trapping  
> multitouch gestures as messages would be handy (confider the future  
> revmobile platform). This should be available to all platforms. The  
> the stack could handle the message by itself (for instance enlarge  
> the font size of a field).
> There is a report on this at qacenter # 8446
Thanks for the link

cordialement
André
>
> cheers
> 	François