Bug 67

Summary: tiny fonts are used for external programs (release notes viewer, chrooted gurpmi in updates step)
Product: Mageia Reporter: AL13N <alien>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Low CC: dmorganec, ennael1, ftg, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version: CauldronKeywords: USABILITY
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: OK
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: Screenshot of small font in Updates phase

Description AL13N 2011-02-16 23:50:16 CET
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101230 Mandriva Linux/1.9.2.13-0.2mdv2010.2 (2010.2) Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 

Description of problem:

when updating, the popup messages had tiny fonts suddenly (almost unreadable). is this due to a large screen with low resolution, during installation? and having configured the video part?

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
D Morgan 2011-02-25 00:03:38 CET

CC: (none) => dmorganec
Assignee: ahmadsamir3891 => bugsquad

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-03 18:06:46 CET
please attach a screenshot

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 AL13N 2011-03-03 20:13:29 CET
that is impossible, it's during installation, there is not system yet.
Comment 3 D Morgan 2011-03-03 20:23:28 CET
thierry can tell better but iirc using F1 during install does a screenshot.
Comment 4 AL13N 2011-03-03 20:52:29 CET
really? and where is the screenshot located then? how can it store if there's no system yet? i don't understand? also, this could have been mentioned before testing, this would make some stuff easier, probably. i've been using since Mandrake 6.2 ... and i've never known this?

and also, i'd have to reinstall to do so... which i can't really do right now, because i still need this system for debugging the other bugs?

perhaps someone else can confirm? and possibly take screenshot?
Comment 5 Frank Griffin 2011-03-03 21:04:56 CET
I'll be trying a fresh install in a day or so, and I'll see if I can do it.  I can confirm what you reported, although I didn't find it objectionable at the time.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 6 Anne Nicolas 2011-03-03 21:12:08 CET
Use F4 key then have a look in /root after reboot to find screenshots

CC: (none) => ennael1

Comment 7 AL13N 2011-03-03 21:13:25 CET
thanks, and well objectionable is a big word, but it was noticably a lot smaller than the rest. i can imagine older people would have a hard time reading it.
Comment 8 Frank Griffin 2011-03-03 21:51:02 CET
(In reply to comment #6)
> Use F4 key then have a look in /root after reboot to find screenshots

Well, I F4'd my little heart out during the Update phase, but there wasn't any screenshot file in /root afterwards.  The only thing even close was drakx/replay_install.img, which is not what I think you mean.
Comment 9 Anne Nicolas 2011-03-03 21:55:20 CET
Sorry it may be F2... I cannot remember :p
Comment 10 Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-04 10:36:37 CET
It's F2 and screenshots will go in /root/DrakX-screenshots after installation.
They got copied here once the "/" of the installed system is mounted in the /mnt of the installer.
You'll got a dialog about this on first screenshot

BTW, in case one cannot install a system at all (which is not the case here), it's seven possible to push them in the cloud. See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/MDK_Installer
Comment 11 Frank Griffin 2011-03-04 15:52:16 CET
Created attachment 84 [details]
Screenshot of small font in Updates phase
Comment 12 Frank Griffin 2011-03-04 15:53:43 CET
The F2 key does not appear to be "seen" by Mageia running in VirtualBox in spite of the keyboard being captured, so I took a screenshot of the window from the host system
Comment 13 Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-04 22:15:08 CET
OK, this is what I though, this is when we run gurpmi2 in the chrooted system

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Summary: at the end of installation, in updating step, fonts are tiny => chrooted gurpmi uses tiny fonts in updates step

Comment 14 AL13N 2011-03-17 23:52:26 CET
confirmed on upgrading mdv via DVD to mga 1 alpha 2, i'm adding dependency to tracker.

Blocks: (none) => 56

Comment 15 AL13N 2011-03-18 20:54:24 CET
btw: isn't the info supplied now? shouldn't needinfo be removed now?
Ahmad Samir 2011-03-18 23:40:52 CET

Blocks: 56 => (none)

Comment 16 AL13N 2011-03-19 02:25:31 CET
@ahmad, why are you removing even this one from #56? this happens DURING upgrade in the last step before reboot (the update step), and i still think NEEDINFO should be removed...
Comment 17 Ahmad Samir 2011-03-19 02:57:43 CET
(In reply to comment #16)
> @ahmad, why are you removing even this one from #56? this happens DURING
> upgrade in the last step before reboot (the update step), and i still think
> NEEDINFO should be removed...

If it happens in a clean install then it's not an upgrade issue that should be tracked by bug 56.
Comment 18 Marja Van Waes 2011-09-25 20:07:19 CEST
This bug was for mga 1 alpha 2.

No one reported this bug for mga 1 rc, so I'm closing this bug.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => m.van.waes
Resolution: (none) => OLD

Comment 19 AL13N 2011-09-26 08:46:34 CEST
bug is still there, iirc

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: OLD => (none)

Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-25 11:59:51 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 20 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-28 19:46:16 CET
Pinging, because nothing has happened with this report for more than 3 months, it still has the status NEW or REOPENED.

@ Thierry

I'm putting OK on the whiteboard  because you assigned this one to yourself. Remove it if you want to be pinged by me here again ;)

Whiteboard: (none) => OK

Thierry Vignaud 2012-01-28 19:46:58 CET

Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 21 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-10 16:05:18 CEST
Things is that we enforce a certain font size for the installer in lang.pm (see %charset2pango_font) and load_font() in install/install2.pm

A way to workaround this could be to dump the bit of gtkrc we generate into a temp file and force run program to use it through the GTK2_RC_FILES environment variable.
Of course this won't work anymore once we switch to gtk+-3...
Comment 22 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:10:14 CEST
Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 23 AL13N 2012-06-14 22:09:12 CEST
cauldron only

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 24 Thierry Vignaud 2012-08-30 16:27:22 CEST
Also valid for release notes viewer on very first step.
Which I workarounded long time ago for the HTML content but not for the buttons
Comment 25 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-10 04:07:49 CET
The issue is that we set a font size for the installer (charset2pango_font in lang.pm), "DejaVu Sans 12" for most languages.
But this is set for the installer process only, by parsing a gtk style.
Fixed in SVN

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Summary: chrooted gurpmi uses tiny fonts in updates step => tiny fonts are used for external programs (release notes viewer, chrooted gurpmi in updates step)