2011/10/17 Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com
What would help here is for someone to make a screenshot comparison of
the same windows, laid out in exactly the same positions, on Ubuntu,
Windows, and OS X.
We might find that the problem is partly font size, but partly also
size
I've created such a comparsion.
First label shows default monospace font in Windows and in Ubuntu (gedit).
Second label (Setup is loading...) shows Windows interface font (setup
program) compared to Ubuntu interface font (made in Glade).
See how much Windows fonts are clearer and take a lot
I feel I should point out that at least in my case, Windows 7 has, after a
fresh install, always defaulted to the 125% bigger font preset. My monitor
is a 4:3 20in HP, 1600x1200. DPI as I recall is just about 100. I always
prefer to set the fonts to the default setting (100%), but it doesn't seem
The letters in the Segoe example run together, and in My opinion are a
bit harder to read than the Ubuntu example. In addition to this, they
look clearer because of improper hinting settings, which detracts from
the visual appearance of the characters and also makes them harder to
read.
They are *slightly* harder to read because they're very small (9pt).
Ubuntu should use Ubuntu 10, not 11. Remember, that such huge font makes
working on smaller screens very annoying (no window will fit the screen,
or will force user to scroll/move windows), working on bigger screen
makes
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charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 19:58:
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
FYI: Changing the text-scaling-factor is easy with gsettings:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor FACTOR
FACTOR is a float value with high precision
For example:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 0.9
Also, you can get the current
The text scaling factor setting is highly undesireable. Neighter Mozilla
apps or QT apps are respecting it. So with this change you'll get
smaller/bigger fonts on the desktop, but Skype, Guitar Pro and Firefox
will remain intact. This will make user to search changing Firefox font
size in
2011/10/18 Tomasz Sałaciński tsalacin...@gmail.com
The text scaling factor setting is highly undesireable. Neighter Mozilla
apps or QT apps are respecting it. So with this change you'll get
smaller/bigger fonts on the desktop, but Skype, Guitar Pro and Firefox will
remain intact. This will
Hello,
Sorry, I am not a Ubuntu developer, I have no power over what is
included and what patches are accepted. I'm in doubt that my application
will get into Ubuntu, I just wanted to share it with people that like to
have such an app.
In order to get everything working with this setting
I've only ever seen one person adjust the font size on any OS, Ubuntu
or otherwise. This person needed the font larger so that he could see
easier, and a basic font-size setting is present in Universal Access
for people with such needs. Other users *shouldn't* need to adjust
their font size,
Here
Yes, but normal newbie user don't know that tool such as GNOME Tweak
Tool exist. When they are said to download and use it, they may be
horrified that such small tool installs packages such as mutter, mesa,
alacarte, gnome-panel, gnome-shell and so on and takes about 80
megabytes after
2011/10/17 Tomasz Sałaciński tsalacin...@gmail.com:
Yes, but normal newbie user don't know that tool such as GNOME Tweak Tool
exist. When they are said to download and use it, they may be horrified that
such small tool installs packages such as mutter, mesa, alacarte,
gnome-panel, gnome-shell
In my opinion the current font size is beatuiful on an HD monitor, much
nicer than how windows or mac looks on such high resolution. But on a
traditional screen it really is a bit disturbing. For example, on my
1024x600 netbook screen I always have to scale down the fonts to 10-9px for
the desktop
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:40 PM, balint...@gmail.com
balint...@gmail.com wrote:
In my opinion the current font size is beatuiful on an HD monitor, much
nicer than how windows or mac looks on such high resolution. But on a
traditional screen it really is a bit disturbing. For example, on my
I've never had a problem with the font size with Ubuntu, or with Windows to
be honest. I've assisted a lot of users with their desktops over the years
and the only reason I've ever heard for adjusting the font is due to
eyesight issues, which as has been mentioned previously is available via
Since this is a hot issue, I've created a Control Center applet that
allows user to change fonts. You can download it here:
http://luxperpetua.net/gnome/gnome-font-settings-0.1.tar.bz2
You will have to install dconf:
sudo apt-get install libdconf-dev
Then, unpack the file, go to directory and
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
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
I've had the opposite experience with Windows. I find the Windows font
painfully small and scanty.
It's always refreshing to get to use Ubuntu with ubuntu-font because I feel
like the font size and everything is sized just right. One of the things I like
about Ubuntu over Windows is how, in
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
Exactly. It's not about what size is right. It's about being able to
customize it to your own liking.
Eylem
On 10/16/11 9:56 AM, nick rundy wrote:
I've had the opposite experience with Windows. I find the Windows font
painfully small and scanty.
It's always refreshing to get to use Ubuntu
2011/10/16 nick rundy nru...@hotmail.com
I've had the opposite experience with Windows. I find the Windows font
painfully small and scanty.
It's always refreshing to get to use Ubuntu with ubuntu-font because I feel
like the font size and everything is sized just right. One of the things I
I also have no problem with the size. I think that they are perfect, but
I know many persons who say the font is too big...
Just found out that you can change it in the accessibility menu, but
small is too small, and normal is ideal.
Found it out cause I thought they may be older persons
Sorry I forgot to say, that this is a strange place and on some screens
the small options seems to be good. But it*s the first time ever I
opened the accessibility menu^^
/I also have no problem with the size. I think that they are perfect,
but I know many persons who say the font is too
I agree with this in 100%.
W dniu 15.10.2011 20:58, charlesa...@gmail.com 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
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