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How do you know that most people don't have any preference about the
font size? Every people I know (I tested it on almost 100 people in
my company) doesn't want to use Ubuntu because of too big, ugly
fonts (interface/deskto fonts are much bigger than website fonts for
example). My friend that removed Ubuntu from his computer went to me
and said that fonts on my machine look a lot better than they looked
on his.
I think that it's not font size that matter, but "Ubuntu 10" font
look a lot sharper than "Ubuntu 11" and it's A LOT easier to read -
spacing is better, there is no gray outline around the fonts. In
previous versions of Ubuntu user was able to make fonts sharper by
selecting "Full hinting" from the font menu, but I see that there is
no such key in dconf anymore. Also, gnome-tweak-tool installs a lot
of dependencies and it makes the Ubuntu experience a lot worse for
users without eagle sight that want to make fonts more readable.
W dniu 16.10.2011 08:45, Ian Santopietro pisze:
No. It does appeal to some people, but the large majority have
no preferences to what the font size is. If you want to change
font settings to your liking, you can do this from the
gnome-tweak-tool application. You can install it from the
software center.
could you please reduce the default font and ui size of
unity and ubuntu overall, they really taking much screen
real estate, or at least give us option to reduce the dpi
or ppi setting like the one in windows.
after playing with unity and ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, and
changing back to windows, it feels that windows font and
ui size are much better, perhaps because it's smaller. for
people who love big size font and ui still could enlarge
them from dpi or ppi setting. in windows there's a 96%
ppi, 100% ppi, and 125% ppi. i also believe in mac osx,
the font and ui size are almost identical small with
windows.
with all due respect, we're still young, perhaps the
bigger one for the old folks, i know my boss love the
bigger font size since he is 50+ years old. at least make
it more attractive with younger audience.
i often to reduce font size in gnome classic to get the
point as windows font and ui size, but somehow they still
look big for monitors under 1920x1080 resolution. :(
i've been quite a long ubuntu users since 7.04 up until
now. our office use ubuntu as their primary os up to the
end 2010 and changed back to windows due to back office
program changing.
though unity has great appearance, i find it hard to use
when opening multi applications and change them back and
forth. gotta love the old task bar on top or below. the
side bar is really short due to all monitor tends to have
shorter vertical pixel.
anyway, keep up the good work, looking forward to 12.04
lts version! hope the UI experience will be much smoother
and more polished.