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- From: ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller)
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- Subject: Re: message line bogosity
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:54:06 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 26-Aug-92 Re: message line
- bogosity Robert Kemmetmueller@rch (781+0)
-
- > Anyway, this is a little off-the-wall, but how about dynamically
- > changing the font size?
- > When something in the message line gets too long, the text can get
- > shrunk so it still fits.
- > If there's a whole mess of text, it can get scrunched down into a
- > teeny-tiny font so it will all still fit.
-
- I don't think that idea would fly too much - some people set up their
- fonts specifically so that they can read them, and shrinking the fonts
- for longer messages may greatly impair their ability to read the
- information presented.
-
- I'd be happy with the way it used to be a long time ago - if the message
- was too long to fit in the existing space allocated for the
- message-line, it wrapped - and all you would see was the wrapped
- portion.
-
- BUT THEN you could enlarge the message line (horizontally and/or
- vertically) and find out what the whole message was. If you increased
- the size vertically - it became scrollable.
-
- AND it maintained a small (<10?) history of the last N messages - and
- each was timestamped (much the way they are in Console) so you could get
- some amount of context.
-
- The only thing I can see that would be an improvement - is if the
- (vertical) size of the message-line were able to change on the fly -
- dependant upon the length of the message being displayed - and then
- automatically decrease in size again afterwards (heuristic needed)
-
- --fish
-