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ubuntu-ui-toolkit package

Fonts in web view are extremely small

Bug #1169989 reported by Cris Dywan
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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

I'm using web views to show text content as well as HTML. For both the default fonts are extremely small and unreadable.

I tried "experimental.preferences.minimumFontSize: units.dp(24)" for a work-around, which obviously isn't a longterm solution.

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :
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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

On what device are you testing?

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :

This is on a 1366x768 96dpi laptop.

Florian Boucault (fboucault)
Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit:
importance: Undecided → High
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Tim Peeters (tpeeters) wrote :

the qml code attached is a mess, here is the fixed code:

import QtQuick 2.2
import Ubuntu.Components 1.1
import QtWebKit 3.0

MainView {
    width: units.gu(60)
    height: units.gu(80)
    Page {
        title: "Example"
        Row {
            id: splitView
            property string html: "file:///usr/share/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/doc/html/overview-ubuntu-sdk.html"
            anchors.fill: parent
            WebView {
                width: parent.width / 3
                height: parent.height
                url: splitView.html
            }
        }
    }
}

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Tim Peeters (tpeeters) wrote :

how is the webbrowser-app currently dealing with this?

Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit:
status: New → Confirmed
Zsombor Egri (zsombi)
Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan)
Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan)
no longer affects: ubuntu-ui-toolkit
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