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[Tomasz Sałaciński <tsalacinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're absolutely right. But I think we miss the point here; of course I 
was enraged that Unity panel doesn't minimize windows after clicking on 
application's launcher and by the big ugly fonts in Ubuntu. Of course I 
had to live with it and have no problem right now. But I would for sure 
change it if I had a choice (I've already changed system fonts to 10pt 
because of their childish look). What I'm trying to say is that there's 
lack of system setting panel that allows changing font settings and 
Unity behaviour (one-click minimize - if I have 10 apps open and I want 
to minimize 8, I need 1-2 seconds and 8 clicks to minimize them; with 
current behaviour I have to click on the window to focus it, move the 
mouse to the to to minimize it and so on, so it takes about 15-20 
seconds). The same with fonts; because the fonts are so big, they look 
ugly (gray anti-alias pixels around them making them look very nice but 
a lot less readable - kills contrast, and they look simply childish), 
they don't match fonts in Firefox (websites usually use a lot smaller 
fonts) and the whole system seems cluttered. Right now I have to play 
with dconf or install gnome-tweak-tool which install a lot of 
dependencies (along with GNOME Shell). This is just a suggestion you 
could make things more configurable.

W dniu 16.10.2011 13:01, Jo-Erlend Schinstad pisze:
> Den 16. okt. 2011 11:33, skrev Tomasz Sałaciński:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My question is about the attitude of making changes to Ubuntu. Most
> > replies start with "Users don't want to", "Most users won't do that",
> > "This will make users confused". How do you have such information? My
> > proposal is to make a "Ubuntu poll" application that will gather
> > opinion from users (NOT requiring a Launchpad account). What do you
> > think about it? I am a python programmer, I can make such an app.
>
> You get such data by collecting a number of different users and testing
> the software on them in a controlled manner. A web poll is not useful
> because people will be driven by preconceptions and emotion instead of
> actually analysing what they're doing. For example, I got really upset
> when the window buttons were moved. I mean, I got enraged. It was
> completely irrational, and when the rage settled, I just started using
> the software and it was no problem at all. I would've voted against the
> best solution out of fear of change. That's a _very_ bad thing to base
> decisions on.
>
> Science is the best tool. Ever.
>
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
>
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