i agree...sending out a distribution with ugly, and nearly unreadable fonts
is a major mistake for a company that puts out the otherwise best distro for
linux newbies...nor would it make sense for mandrake to respond that the
fonts can be easily set to look better by the user...if that the case, it'd
certainly have been easy for mandrake to correct this before announcing the
distro ready...
i suspect that many new users will load up mandrake, see how ugly the text on
their favorite websites look, and return to windows, telling others that
linux just isn't yet ready for use...
frank
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On Tuesday 24 April 2001 02:09 am, Mattias Dahlberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd really like to know why MandrakeSoft never did anything about the fixed
> font in KDE, nor the minimum font size in Konqueror.
>
> Besides, did you consider that your default icon arrangement would look bad
> on non-English desktops?
>
> These are all *small* things that were easy to fix. Linux-Mandrake 8.0 is a
> nice distro with Apache, php, mysql, proftp and all working fine, but you
> can never under-estimate the first *visual* impression a new user gets.
>
> After installing 8.0 this is how Mandrake's homepage looks in Konqueror:
>
> http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8konq.png
>
> It would have been easily fixed by setting the minimum font size to at
> least 10, preferably 11. I told you that *many* times during the betas.
>
> This is how the icons are arranged the first time you open KDE on a
> non-English desktop:
>
> http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8icons.png
>
> The Trashcan has naturally moved to the left, leaving the user with an
> over-all impression of randomly scattered icons.
>
> And this is the most appalling thing: The fixed font. I'm sure there's a
> good reason why you decided to ignore the numerous requests to change the
> fixed font. This is how KWrite looks, out-of-box in Linux-Mandrake 8.0:
>
> http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8fixed.png
>
> Please, I can't sleep at night. I need to know why MandrakeSoft did this,
> despite all the suggestions made on the Cooker mailing list. Those little
> things are oh so important, you know.
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
