Font Size

[Soundwave]

The font size in the Contact window is HUGE…how do I reduce it so it is not so garish?

[Sparks]

Right now, you don't; the OS X builds are still in alpha, so we're putting in functionality and testing as we flesh out. We're going to have a number of different list 'styles,' but they're slated for a later alpha build; right now, only the large display size Kid designed is supported. You'll notice that if there is a line of status text, the display name and the status text are precisely the same height as the avatar, which was the design goal for the 'large' style.

Down the road, you'll have view styles you can change between (smaller icons/fonts, etc., a straight out icon-only tile mode a'la Win32's tile mode, and so on). If it's a super-critical feature for you, add it as a feature request to Bugzilla; votes for 'what is the most-needed feature' do influence what new stuff we add in a given alpha build.

[Kid]

The font size is made to match the native experience of Mac OS X. Like Rachel said, there will be smaller (and larger!) sizes for the contact list in future. :)

[oldkerosen]

well, the fonts in the contact list looks OK to me, the stress comes from looking at the small fonts in the chat window… is trillian for mac using webkit for messaging style? may I append some lines in the com.xxtrillianxx.plist file in which I define the minimum font size?

[oldkerosen]

<key>MessageFont</key>
<dict>
<key>Color</key>
<string>#000000</string>
<string>Helvetica</string>
<key>Font</key>
<key>Size</key>
<real>14</real>
</dict>

[Sparks]

Trillian for Mac uses WebKit, but the font styles aren't read from the plist. They're read from a CSS file in the application bundle.

Down the road, there will be additional chat styles (and the ability for users to add their own chat styles), but right now, I'm focusing on fleshing out all the other functionality before adding customization.

[oldkerosen]

Trillian for Mac uses WebKit, but the font styles aren't read from the plist. They're read from a CSS file in the application bundle.

thanks for the info. to know where to look at was sufficient. I was trying so force the font size in the chats from the command line "defaults write ..." but didn't seem to work.

[oldkerosen]

discussing again the fonts size in the chat window (build 106 on 10.6.3): the messages sent from Microsoft Messenger for Mac tend to be much larger then the standard font size given in the Default.css file or what I normally see when chatting with a jabber or yahoo contact. In the same time, the size of the fonts in messages from windows users of the ICQ native client are smaller…