Interface text size

Is it at all possible to make the interface text size user selectable?
I’m old and my eye sight is not what it once was, still pretty good but trying to read some of the text for the user elements means I’m having to lean forward to read things. This is particularly difficult in the items manager which, over time, becomes more and more difficult as the model grows.
It would also be very useful if we can have a 'Show All/Show Only (selected)/Hide All/Hide Selected buttons as well as Save View/s so we can set up views of components without having to re-select items each time …
And one more thing, can we please, please have a way of removing the grid pattern from the screen …

Kim