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[Praveen <tgpraveen89@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hate to dig up this old thread.
But it seems that a decision was either not taken/not announced.

So what was the final decision taken on the issue of notifications in
fullscreen apps.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Jan Claeys <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Op maandag 06-07-2009 om 10:25 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Charlie
> Kravetz:
> > However, there should also be easy ways to change fonts and colors of
> > notifications. Visual impairments can make it difficult/impossible to
> > see the text. This is not a design team decision they should be
> > making, but user decisions when necessary.
> >
> > The fewer choices we allow, the more difficult we make Ubuntu to use
> > by all people. We have pretty much told users if you want
> > accessibility, go somewhere else. We don't really think you need
> > choices here.
>
> I have pointed that out before.
>
> My experience with this is an employee at my previous job (I had to
> replace her PC) who a.o. needed a screen magnifier and a low-contrast
> theme (for Windows).
>
> Ubuntu + GNOME has a low-contrast theme in gnome-theme-extras, which
> isn't installed by default though (a screen magnifier is).
>
> She couldn't read (or maybe only with extreme difficulty) anything that
> was white on black or black on white or anything else that has a high
> contrast.  She explained that to her "white" is what to me would be like
> looking into a spotlight from nearby and then trying to identify what's
> next to the spotlight (or something like that).  IIRC the theme she
> prefered was "lighter blue" on "darker blue" (where the color might or
> might not be relevant, I don't know).
>
>
> --
> Jan Claeys
>
>
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