Re: Wyland is a disaster

[Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx>]

On 02/06/2018 11:53 AM, Howard Howell wrote:

On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 16:39 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

On 02/05/2018 01:35 PM, Howard Howell wrote:

My eyes hurt after a few hours trying to find the smaller and darker default cursors.

Do you know that you can simply increase the size of the cursors?

You are on my hero's list.  Somebody figure out how to make this part
of gnome-tweak-tool, PLEASE, or on the accessibility menu.

We older folk need to support each other; let us start the Fedora Grandpa Edition :)

Trigger warning: what follows is a rant from an older person in your midst. I don't know what's the right solution to the issues I raise, but I do think I have a point. I hope the young developers consider these in future design decisions.

I am beginning to think that in pursuit of flexibility and increased functionality we end up making systems that are too complex and too hard to discover. Users with cognitive or physical limitations have increasingly harder time negotiating the technology:

• My 82-year-old dad  has difficulties operating his iPhone simply because there are too many options on it
• on your stereo, is netflix on Fire, Chromecast, Blueray player or cable box?
  

I do like the functionality when it 'just works' but when it doesn't, it's often a debacle. There should be a way to dial back the complexity; show less options, etc. The old tradeoff was between simple systems with limited functionality, and complex but capable systems. Maybe there's a way to have both: annotate OS features by how fancy they are, and provide a dial that selects more or less of those advanced features, to accommodate both power users and those who want a simple, basic, utilitarian system.

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