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Status: Available
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Bug

Blocked on: View detail
issue 835785
issue 877050
issue 778074



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MD Extensions UI looks broken with large fonts

Project Member Reported by dpa...@chromium.org, Aug 8 2017

Issue description

Repro steps
1) go to chrome://settings/
2) Change font size to "very large"
3) go to MD chrome://extensions

Expected: UI does not look broken
Actual: UI looks broken (see screenshots).
 
large_fonts_toolbar_broken.png
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Cc: bettes@chromium.org
+ bettes@ for guidance.
Components: -Platform>Extensions UI>Browser>ExtensionsManagement UI
Components: -UI
Owner: dschuyler@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Available)
Labels: OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Mac OS-Windows
Blockedon: 778074
Separated font size issues with side nav to  Issue 778074 .
Cc: dbeam@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
Downgrading this to a P3. Explaining rationale below:

Drastically changing the font size and expecting the UI to look descent/usable is a bit of a stretch. It is a reasonable expectation for an article/document type of page, but it seems unreasonable for an app-like interface, like MD Extension's card layout. As another data point, Gmail (which I would classify as an "app" and not as a article/document), also looks poor on a very large font size.

Unless we are willing to also modify the dimensions of the cards/toolbar when the font changes, the result will not be that pleasing anyway. At the same time, changing the dimensions of cards/toolbar sounds very similar to what zoom-ing already does, so unclear whether that is worth implementing either.

Thinking more about this, I am skeptical on why our WebUI pages respect the font-size setting at all. Perhaps that setting should be ignored by WebUI pages (and should only applied to remote Web content).

Having said that, if there are cases where with a reasonable font size poor layout is observed, maybe with a language other than English  language, or when an even slightly larger font size is used (like when using "large"/"very large" presets from chrome://settings/appearance), we could increase priority for those cases.

Comment 9 by dbeam@chromium.org, Dec 6 2017

Cc: dmazz...@chromium.org
Owner: dpa...@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Assigned)
Blockedon: 835785
Status: Assigned (was: Available)
Blockedon: 877050
Status: Available (was: Assigned)
Un-assigning myself for now. See #8 for a more detailed reasoning, about why I don't think the issue described here is worth investing much time.
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