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2016-10-07, 17:57
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-07, 18:00 by Ed76.)
@gracus: you wrote "I ask about the TV size that Kodi team had in mind when they talk about "10 foot media center experience""
exactly thats the question i would wish to discuss here with team kodi. if you are sitting in front of a pc-monitor or in front of a huge tv you can read the fonts easy. but you can not use the default skin if you have viewing distance > "picture diagonal" x 2,5 (like me) or if you have a little smaler tv in the bed room.
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2016-10-08, 14:36
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-08, 14:56 by qp9013625.)
Guys, as already mentioned, please let's stop using such arbitrary terms and definitions like "10 foot viewing experience", "distance X is the best at diagonale Y" and so on. This is completely arbitrary.
Everyone is different. Not everyone has the same eyesight, not everyone has the same perception.
What we can all agree on though is:
The fonts in Estuary are too small!
Way too small. Some of you have suggested to increase the font only by one or two points. That is not enough. Please don't just settle with the minimum.
The fonts need to be much larger.
Why do the devs fail to understand that?
This has already been mentioned: We can all understand that having worked on a brand new skin and then getting critizism probably isn't that nice.
But the small fonts issue has been raised by users pretty much from the beginning.
But the devs have been entirely unreceptive for the feedback from the beginning.
Why?
@ Devs: Please do something about this.
And please do not just increase the fonts by one or two points. The fonts need to be much larger.
The fonts are even small on a 42 inch TV and even on bigger ones...
And there are even people using some relatively small 32 or even 26 inch TVs in the bedroom or wherever.
Please increase the font size.
And please remove the empty space at the top/bottom/left/right of the UI by making the UI larger.
If that requires a large amount of Estuary to be redesigned, then so be it.
Please don't just close your eyes regarding this issue.
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Right, the default font size is fine for my living room, sitting 11 feet from a 60" TV. But in my bedroom, 10 feet from a 42" TV, I have to sit up and squint to read it. Font sizes should be configurable.
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In movies and TV show in info wall view type .it will be very convenient to show genre and rating. There is not any view type which combine thumbnail rating and genre
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I'm almost 12 feet (3,6 meters) away from my 32" tv. Isn't it possible to make the font size adaptable? So everyone can select there favorite size?
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It's totally possible, the developers just don't want to do it. If you can't read Estuary, only real option is use a different skin.
Well, or buy a bigger TV.
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Overall the font size is just about usable except when using the TV guide (epg synopsis, etc) where its impossible to read on either of my TVs (50" plasma & 32" LCD). I would also like a way to increase the font size without having to modify any files or install additional skins.
Surely an option to increase the font size should be a basic function.
