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Normally, I would agree with having to install a third-party app to
fine tune a very deep and minor system setting, but "font size" is
not such a setting and I completely disagree with your position
here. We have all been criticizing Gnome-Shell for being
non-customizable and were hoping Ubuntu could improve on that
although they use the same Gnome backend. I understand not having
the man-power to implement this but please don't give the sorry
excuse of "most people...".
Eylem
On 10/16/11 2:45 AM, Ian Santopietro wrote:
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.