Ability to change font size of tweets

[MatejLach]

It would be really nice if one could change the font size of the tweets, without affecting the rest of the UI. Is this possible/planned? Thanks.

[baedert]

That's neither currently possible nor planned. Why do you want the tweets to have a different font size (and leave everything else unaffected)?

[MatejLach]

Sad to hear that it's not planned. I would like this, because when I am looking at the timeline from a distance, I just need the tweets themselves to be bigger, as I am not controlling the UI anyways. Also, some fonts require slightly different sizes to look good, compared to others.

The now inactive "Hotot" client had this feature, so a picture of its settings dialog may ilustrate it better: http://beginlinux.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/hotot11.jpg

Thanks for the great work.

[nobeh]

+1

One simple reason: I have weak eyes and do not by default use the scaling feature of my desktop. I'd rather configure different desktop apps on their font configurations on what best suites my eyes.

[baedert]

If you have weak eyes, wouldn't you want all other text (at least within the app) to be affected too?

And I'm assuming we're not only talking about the tweet text font size, but also author etc? I.e. all the text of a tweet row?

[kanishkablack]

+1

Yep tweet row would be perfect

[mclaborn]

I'd be happy if I could change the font size in the entire application. Is that possible?

For pidgin, I have the following in my .gtkrc-2.0 file. Would something similar work for CoreBird?

style "imhtml-large"
{
    font_name = "Verdana 14"
}
widget "*pidgin_conv_imhtml" style "imhtml-large"

[baedert]

Only in that one application, no. It will just pick up the font size you've configured (or not) desktop-wide.

[kopr12]

Actually it can be done, but via patching Corebird :) @mclaborn, do note that the entire Corebird will be changed (where text is involved), I figured that's what you wanted. You can change the font name too, I've included that just in case, as well as font-weight. 24px might be too big, you might wanna play with that to suit your needs.

--- a/ui/style.css  2016-07-19 20:52:52.576826000 +0200
+++ b/ui/style.css  2016-07-19 20:54:55.605775934 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 @define-color topbar_bg #333;

+ * {
+    font-size: 24px;
+   font-weight: bold;
+   font-family: "Signika", Georgia, Serif;
+    }
+
 .avatar-round {
   border: 1px solid grey;
   border-radius: 48px;

[kdave]

IMHO some level of configurability per-application is desired. The system-wide text settings do not usually apply to reading long texts, but eg. dialogs, "about box", menus etc.

From the beginning I found it very tiring to read the text, hard to just skim (because lots of twitter posts are, well, void of meaningful content) so tweaking the font to speed up reading would be really helpful.

From top of my head, applications that display longish texts to read also offer a way to set the fonts: browser, office programs, terminal emulators, GUI mail clients.

I understand that you might be unwilling to implement a feature for which you do not have use yourself, but there are users that do. I'll take the route of patching corebird for my own use based on the snippet in the previous comment.

[starvald]

Have this a font problem too, i have a 2nd monitor just big enough (800x600 in portrait mode) for conky and a twitter client but the fonts were too small in corebird. until i found this command: env GDK_SCALE=1.3 GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.3 CLUTTER_SCALE=1.3 corebird changed the scaling for just corebird, adjust the values to suit your screen.

[kdave]

@starvald awesome, thank you!

[emanuk]

@starvald Wow, thanks a bunch!!! Very useful.

[jesscanady]

FWIW: I would definitely want the ability to zoom the text on a timeline. I got bad eyes. System font size is reasonable, but I still occasionally have to lean-in to read a tweet.

[billiebird]

@kajzersoze Where and how would this patch be applied?

" --- a/ui/style.css 2016-07-19 20:52:52.576826000 +0200 +++ b/ui/style.css 2016-07-19 20:54:55.605775934 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ @define-color topbar_bg #333;

• • {
• font-size: 24px;
• font-weight: bold;
• font-family: "Signika", Georgia, Serif;
• }

• .avatar-round { border: 1px solid grey; border-radius: 48px; "

CoreBird is awesome and almost perfect except I am unable to read tweets from a distance and unable to adjust the font size.

The above command line (env GDK_SCALE=1.3 GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.3 CLUTTER_SCALE=1.3 corebird) works great if you want to try and remember the command every single time you want to start up CoreBird.

[kopr12]

@billiebird Sorry for late reply, wasn't using Corebird for some time, decided to take a look again and can't believe how small fonts are and that this issue still exists, I certainly can't use it like that, anyway ... you need to compile it, if you're using Gentoo or Arch I can help you with the package, otherwise you would have to figure out how to compile it, if you manage to do that then it won't be a problem to patch it.

[GrangeBeach]

with the flatpak corebird 1.7.3 is there any way to increase font size ?

[Vistaus]

As issue https://github.com/baedert/corebird/issues/810 was closed can't this issue be closed as well then?

[IBBoard]

Presumably, if the main Corebird window was given its own ID (for CSS styling) then you'd be able to write specific custom rules for each part of the UI? I know I've done that kind of thing for Nautilus and other apps before.

[ghost]

If you want to change only "tweets" font size, you can use this:

$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css 
window > .vertical > stack > scrolledwindow > .frame > list > .tweet
{
    font-size: 18px;
}