Allow users to change code font-size in Developer Tools
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(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)
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(Reporter: fvsch, Unassigned)
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Comment 11•6 years ago
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With work being done in bug 1520440 and related bugs, this might become possible.
Patrick, do you know if this is something we might want to pursue in 2019?
If so, we have two options:
- Offer an arbitrary code font-size preference (between bounds, say 10px to 20px)
- Offer a 'bigger fonts' option with a font-size that we pick (say 13px or 14px)
To be honest it might be a bunch of work to fix text elements that have a fixed height:20px
or similar issues, without regressing tests. Personally I think it would be great to do anyway, but I just wanted to mention that it's not a quick fix if we want a great result. (We can also make it an 'advanced' feature and mark it as experimental, to calibrate expectations.)
Comment 12•6 years ago
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If this was a font-size preference , then it would be experimental by definition, because the pref wouldn't be surfaced anywhere else than in about:config. That is, until we were happy with the result and then created maybe a drop-down to select the font-size in the DevTools settings panel.
So, I can definitely see that as a possibility. Adding the pref, and then filing the bugs one by one to fix the issues with text not changing size when this pref changes.
Now, I think Victoria should also be consulted in terms of whether or not this is something we even want to allow in the UI at all.
Finally, in terms of prioritization, this wouldn't be one of our top 2019 projects for sure, so we'd have to rely on our amazing community to help fix those bugs one after the other. I think a lot of them could be good-first-bugs, so that might be a great community project in fact.
Just setting expectations.
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Comment 13•6 years ago
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One user report stating that the font-size used (monospace 11px in the Console on Windows) is too small to read: bug 1486177.
Updated•3 years ago
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