[5501] in testers
Re: We really should try a little harder with the default window
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jun 17 19:34:20 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 17 Jun 2003 19:34:18 -0400
Maybe I'm just being grumpy because it's different.
Anyway, Athena users are going to experience a bigger font with 9.2 than
was there before. I'll follow up with a suggestion to Heather for
documentation in the Release Notes.
-wdc
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:10, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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?
>
