Font settings request

[JFG1000]

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Feature description

Hey jurial is it please possible to add an option to revert back to the previous font size, it seems far to big in some scenarios and all cluttered, some labeling cuts off now the "real debrid" in the picture I've uploaded as an example, really appreciate your work but would be really grateful if cold give us that option

Why is this feature needed? Please justify and explain.

It's easier to read as it was before it's not as cluttered.

Screenshots and Additional Info

Checklist

• I have opened a separate discussion for each feature I am requesting.
• I have searched the discussions and this feature has not been requested.
• I am using the most recent skin version.

[jurialmunkey]

I didn't change the font size.

[xyzfre]

I did notice the same after this recent update on certain items the fonts do look bigger.

[JFG1000]

It's massive now and some text won't fit on the screen we have to wait for autoscroll to kick in, much prefer it how it was originally but that's just me

[JFG1000]

Originally it looked like this

[jurialmunkey]

Not sure why you're showing me screenshots of something not in the skin...

Not saying it is unrelated to the commit but also I really don't have any reference point. It doesn't even look like those are the same addon.... one says "Fen Light" and the other says "Fen".

There is a very easy way to check, install the previous from last version of the skin and see if it makes a difference.

[JFG1000]

Sorry was just finding you an example of the difference in text, it's an old photo that i managed to find on my phone. I'll revert back and see if it makes any difference

[jurialmunkey]

But also I didn't change any font sizes. I literally just copy pasted into an include so I didn't have to repeat the same code three times for the different fontsets -- all the sizes are identical to before.

Here is the font definition for font13 (which is what addons use) in Font.xml from the prior commit

skin.arctic.fuse/1080i/Font.xml

Lines 256 to 261 in e0b0883

	<!-- Required for system -->
	<font>
	<name>font13</name>
	<filename>RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf</filename>
	<size>30</size>
	</font>

And here it is in the include

skin.arctic.fuse/1080i/Includes_Font.xml

Lines 297 to 302 in 35919e6

	<font>
	<name>font13</name>
	<filename>$PARAM[font_regular]</filename>
	<size>30</size>
	<aspect>$PARAM[aspect_standard]</aspect>
	</font>

And here is the font_regular param defined with the same font as before

skin.arctic.fuse/1080i/Includes_Font.xml

Line 27 in 35919e6

<param name="font_regular">RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf</param>

There is literally no change to this font other than the addition of the <aspect> tag which is defined as 1.0 -- i.e. identical to no aspect defined (1.0 = 100% aspect), and aspect only affects how condensed the width of letters appear, not the their height.

[JFG1000]

Fair enough appreciate the response, I wasn't meaning to be negative, I've just rolled back to a previous one, then re applied latest it seems ok now

[JFG1000]

@jurialmunkey I've noticed this happening again on the latest update, today but it's very strange as I cannot put my finger on it as to why it's happening, I revert back to 0.7.15 it displays as normal, it's the moment I apply an update, tried clearing cache, I don't understand.

[jurialmunkey]

even the temperature reading that's a placement holder before the clear art loads is massive aswell

This is something completely different. Yes the title font sizes were changed to remove the Kodi logo and still fill the space. This has nothing to do with addons as the only font addons use is font13 (unless the addon has a custom skin attempting to use skin fonts).

What do you mean like for like?

A screenshot comparing before and after of the same window using the skin on version 0.7.15 and 0.7.20

[vella9]

I am also having the same "issue", what I noticed, that maybe can help is that when you go to the Discover Hub and search for any title, the "Searching..." text looks magnified. Maybe this can be of assistance in pin pointing the issue.

[jurialmunkey]

I am also having the same "issue", what I noticed, that maybe can help is that when you go to the Discover Hub and search for any title, the "Searching..." text looks magnified. Maybe this can be of assistance in pin pointing the issue.

Again... This is not the same issue.

As I said just above, the title text size was changed to be larger in order to remove the Kodi logo that everyone complained about but still ensure the space is filled.

This is an entirely separate matter to the font used by addons which is font13.

[vella9]

Misread the above comment, my bad, sorry for that. Understood now, thanks!

[xyzfre]

even the temperature reading that's a placement holder before the clear art loads is massive aswell

This is something completely different. Yes the title font sizes were changed to remove the Kodi logo and still fill the space. This has nothing to do with addons as the only font addons use is font13 (unless the addon has a custom skin attempting to use skin fonts).

What do you mean like for like?

A screenshot comparing before and after of the same window using the skin on version 0.7.15 and 0.7.20

On my end I think the Kodi logo looks great Way better than having the fonts larger.

[JFG1000]

@jurialmunkey

0.7.15. Will get 20 now

[JFG1000]

It's never been an issue up til now is the crazy thing! Would the commit you made yesterday help prevent it happening?

[jurialmunkey]

Yes because that addon is doing super dodgy shit of custom injecting new code into the skin to get the font definitions it wants

I retract this statement, Looking at the code closer, it appears that it tries to edit its own skin files to match the font definitions that it finds in the skin by injecting the new font definitions into its own skins (it's basically trying to generate its own custom skins on the fly)

I shouldn't have been so quick to jump to conclusions - just frustrating when I spend lots of time looking to solve something that which isn't due to something I'm doing but because of some weird hack in an addon.

It fails because it does not read into the include and so cannot find the font names. As a result the default font is used, which is font13 which all addons fallback to.

[jurialmunkey]

0.7.22 will add additional system font sizes.

[JFG1000]

Thankyou so much Jurial and thankyou for clarifying and looking into this, so if it happens again we can just drop the font size and it should correct it? Hopefully it will remain as it is anyway now.

[jurialmunkey]

No the addon is doing something weird. It has nothing to do with the skin. This is not the skin fixing the issue - the problem is still the addon's approach.

This has nothing to do with me "dropping the font size" - the fontsize for font13 is still 30pt like it has always been. I simply added more font names for smaller system fonts from estuary (eg font10 font12) which addons can use.

Since that addons hack breaks because it doesn't consider include code, then I expect it will simply go back to writing default values for its fonts. Now that the skin provides additional system font sizes, the addon will have those other sizes available other than just being forced to fall back to font13. But also who knows because I can't be bothered to look to deeply into it's code.