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["charlesalva@xxxxxxxxx" <charlesalva@xxxxxxxxx>]

dear unity developer team,

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.


kind regards,


/charles
everytime i get ahead, i feel more dead.