Re: iPad and font sizes?

I think that depends on what people are doing in a terminal session. For what I do the majority of the time, I want to be able to specify that my window is always 80x24 and size the font appropriately to fit the dimensions of the screen. But other activities or applications may be less sensitive to size changing, so at that point, it might make sense to specify font size and let the rows and columns be filled appropriately. Doesn't matter, iPhone or iPad, I would definitely want an 80x24 option.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Dean <canadacow@gmail.com> wrote:

Rob,

I agree with what your saying and it's what I plan on implementing.
However, to my surprise, what you're describing is exactly the
opposite configuration people using the iPhone version would want.
There, because of the small screen, often it's a (relatively) normally
sized terminal with the ability to simply increase the size of the
font.  I wasn't sure which one it was going to be so I decided to let
everyone else chime in.  :-)  I'll be addressing these concerns this
week and have a build out soon.

Dean

On Apr 5, 9:58 am, Rob <clemsonjee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Without knowing the implementation, wouldn't it be possible to scale
> the terminal size to whatever size font the user has zoomed to?
>
> So say start at a 16pt font then set the users terminal to whatever
> screen real estate is available at that size.  If they zoom out
> (smaller font), the term size increases.  Opposite for zooming in.
>
> That way you can always have a full screen terminal open (I personally
> don't care about split screen - i use screen).
>
> I imagine vim/mutt/etc taking up the full iPad screen regardless of
> orientation. That would be nice ;)
>
> Either way it looks good.  Looking forward to some updates to get
> these small nits worked out.
>
> Rob
>
> On Apr 4, 10:06 pm, Dean <canada...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Rob,
>
> > Nope.  Font sizing was taken out because I wanted a simple 1:1 point
> > size scaling for the first go.  Not having a device in hand it I
> > didn't have a good real sense for how big or small it would look in
> > person.  Now that I've got one (on my lap) font sizing will be
> > returned to iSSH.
>
> > In landscape the view is 80x24 and in portrait its 64x24.  Would you
> > like to zoom out in portrait to see a whole 80x24?  Any specific
> > suggestions as to how font zooming should be implemented?
>
> > Dean
>
> > On Apr 4, 6:59 pm, Rob <clemsonjee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Am I being blind and not seeing where you can configure the font size
> > > on the iPad version?
>
> > > Directly under the font chooser is "kbd trans", not font size?  The
> > > font on the ipad is huge and I cant even get 80 characters on one
> > > line....

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