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Re: reduce the font and ui size!

 

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.

On Oct 15, 2011 1:56 PM, "Tomasz Sałaciński" <tsalacinski@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:tsalacinski@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    I agree with this in 100%.

    W dniu 15.10.2011 20:58, charlesalva@xxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:charlesalva@xxxxxxxxx> pisze:
    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.


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