ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Markus Wimmer <mwimmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello list,
> I really like my bq aquaris 4.5 ubuntu edition.
>

That's great to hear of course, and only two annoyances :)


> After a year of user experience there are two annoying things. GPS nearly
> never worked as it should, in 9 out of ten cases it is just guessing my
> position by the ip address, so that "nearby" shows places 100 kilometers
> away from where I am. This behaviour is more funny than hurting for me.
>
> We have spent a fair amount of effort in this area and recently identified
some culprits. When it works it works great, but many times not. I don't
want to over commit but I hope you see improvements soon, Generally if you
have Wifi the AGPS helps a lot, and usually getting a fix with a map app
resets the scopes position.



> Really annoying is the small font size in general. For those 40plussers
> like me, who need glasses to read newspapers and books, the "smart" part of
> the smartphone is unuseable without reading glasses.
> Is there any way to customize the fontsize?  ( by edititing configuration
> files?)


There is no good way to do this today and I sympathize. Would some sort of
magnifier/zoom and pan capability satisfy this? We can look into it.
The browser dos support zooming of course which is quite handy.

Pat


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> Markus Wimmer
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