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Tiny font for remaining distance, time, and ETA is a hazard for drivers!

Open sokolgeo opened this issue 11 months ago • 5 comments

While driving, the tiny font used to display the remaining distance, time, and ETA at the bottom of the screen is difficult to read. Trying to read the tiny font makes me lose focus on the road situation!

Could we please make the remaining distance, time, and ETA font size at least twice as large?

I am specifically referring to making font bigger for the sting "24 km 22 min ETA 11:46" in the bottom of this screenshot: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/292191/163813895-ffd20f56-d32e-4625-a7a8-61a9367d86d5.png

sokolgeo avatar Mar 14 '24 15:03 sokolgeo

Good question. It cannot be very large as it wouldn't fit otherwise. Which OS do you use? Is it Kirigami version?

rinigus avatar Mar 14 '24 18:03 rinigus

I am running PostmarketOS on PinePhone.

PostmarketOS being derivative of Alpine Linux, the PureMaps package I run was installed from Alpine package repository

Does it clarify?

sokolgeo avatar Mar 15 '24 12:03 sokolgeo

It should be the same font as is used on the phone by default. Try to increase that in the system and it will increase accordingly.

rinigus avatar Mar 15 '24 17:03 rinigus

I guess there would be a limited number of people willing to change their system font to large before each drive and then change it back to normal afterwards? Any chance of this becoming a preference setting within the application?

sokolgeo avatar Mar 16 '24 13:03 sokolgeo

In principle, it can become preference. Similar to what we have already in terms of map font sizes that depend on the mode as well (map viewing, navigation by car, ...). Just it needs an idea how to integrate it well and making it. Not sure when I can look into it.

rinigus avatar Mar 16 '24 15:03 rinigus