[5499] in testers
Re: We really should try a little harder with the default window
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 17 19:11:01 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 17 Jun 2003 19:10:57 -0400
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:40, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Was there some reason why we defaulted to monospace 10 instead of
> monospace 8? 8 seems readable to me, and consistent with what I
> remember seeing and being able to do (at least under Linux) for 9.1.
We did not change the default font at all, actually.
It is easier to configure your default font in GNOME 2, so I don't think
we will get a lot of negative feedback. Frankly, I don't think we have
a lot of users who work in two side-by-side 80-column terminal windows,
and the ones who do can generally take care of themselves.
> (Insert generic diatribe on how every time I turn around I become more
> strongly convinced that GNOME authors forget more about usability every
> week.)
Actually, quite a lot of attention when towards usability for GNOME 2.
They just didn't always agree with your conception of what's usable. If
10% of users want side-by-side 80-column windows and 30% of users find
monospace 8 too small to comfortably read, what's the right answer?
