Thursday, March 25, 2004
Smaller Fonts Make Me a Happy Guy!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 12:00 PM
I was looking over some of the screen shots at PPCW.net, and this one got me excited:
I've been asking (begging?) for a smaller font option since the first Pocket PC came out in 2000. The default font, for me, is simply too big. I never wanted them to change the default font, because for many people it's perfect, but I wanted to see an option to provide a smaller font, system-wide. Yes, I've tried the various font hacks, but they're all pretty ugly - you end up with dialogue boxes that don't look right, and I never wanted to show my Pocket PC to other people because it looked dysfunctional. This looks like an improvement, but I wonder about the degree of control - notice that while the fonts listing the email are small, the rest of the fonts in Pocket Inbox are regular size. I wonder why that is?
I've been asking (begging?) for a smaller font option since the first Pocket PC came out in 2000. The default font, for me, is simply too big. I never wanted them to change the default font, because for many people it's perfect, but I wanted to see an option to provide a smaller font, system-wide. Yes, I've tried the various font hacks, but they're all pretty ugly - you end up with dialogue boxes that don't look right, and I never wanted to show my Pocket PC to other people because it looked dysfunctional. This looks like an improvement, but I wonder about the degree of control - notice that while the fonts listing the email are small, the rest of the fonts in Pocket Inbox are regular size. I wonder why that is?
