[Feature request]: Increase the font-size from 10 to 12

[davidhedlund]

Expected behaviour

"A clearly legible font of at least size 12 preferably in a dark color over light background should be chosen."

Actual behaviour

The default font-size in mate-terminal for Ubuntu MATE 22.04 is 10.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Open mate-terminal

MATE general version

1.26.2

Package version

1.26.0

Linux Distribution

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2028301
• https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/issues/95

[raveit65]

Blame ubuntu Mate , or use gsettings override as distro maintainer.

[davidhedlund]

Can you please tell me what the default font-size is for mate-terminal in this repo?

[raveit65]

Mate terminal use system settings or monospace 12.

I am packaging MATE since 2012 for fedora, but this question was never a problem.
And fedora use vanila MATE which is really a different to Ubuntu-Mate.
You can customize Mate via gsettings overrides. This is mine.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mate-desktop/blob/rawhide/f/mate-fedora-f34.gschema.override
Such a file needs to be installed to %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/10_mate-fedora.gschema.override

Btw, actual we are a very small team and you gave us a lot of work with your wish list.

[raveit65]

With mate-appearance-properties you can setup system font size.

[davidhedlund]

Mate terminal use system settings or monospace 12.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

[davidhedlund]

And fedora use vanila MATE which is really a different to Ubuntu-Mate.

That is useful to know.

You can customize Mate via gsettings overrides. This is mine. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mate-desktop/blob/rawhide/f/mate-fedora-f34.gschema.override Such a file needs to be installed to %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/10_mate-fedora.gschema.override

I documented this at https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/issues/95

Thanks again.