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Re: reduce the font and ui size!

 

Normally, I would agree with having to install a third-party app to fine tune a very deep and minor system setting, but "font size" is not such a setting and I completely disagree with your position here. We have all been criticizing Gnome-Shell for being non-customizable and were hoping Ubuntu could improve on that although they use the same Gnome backend. I understand not having the man-power to implement this but please don't give the sorry excuse of "most people...".

Eylem



On 10/16/11 2:45 AM, Ian Santopietro wrote:

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 Sa?acin'ski" <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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