On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:41 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 15:02 -0500, John Morris wrote: > > >> So lemme recap what you have been saying in this and other posts.... The > >> current design breaks both internationalization and accessability and > >> you recognize that reality. Fixing these problems isn't an option > >> though because.... well because. > >> > >> Tearing Anaconda apart and rebuilding it from the ground up was an > >> imperative, complaints be damned, because the Anaconda devs had a > >> hankering to do that; they had a fever and the only cure was some more > >> cowbell. But making it useable while they already had it tore apart? > >> Nobody was interested in that. > > > What I'm saying is that there isn't a quick fix to this, which is what > > Felix always suggests; his suggestions always boil down to "make the > > fonts bigger! now!" > > > Given all of that, it's almost never the case that there's a 'quick fix' > > for anything when it comes to the UI. If we're going to make anaconda > > more accessible we need to take an overview of how to do it without > > compromising its other design goals, not just start throwing out quick > > fix ideas. > > While I doubt that there is a quick road to perfection, > making things better should not be all that nasty. > There is no need to ask the display how big it is. > Just ask the user if a bigger font is desired. > The user does not need to be given a lot of choices. > 96, 192 and something in between would be an improvement. It'd be an improvement for the still small number of people who need it. For everyone else it'd be a pointless question, which is one of the things we've been trying to take *out* of the installer, not add to it. See? Different imperatives. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
