On 19 June 2013 17:46, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I haven't tested the F19 installer, but in the F18 installer, under "Troubleshooting", there's an "Install Fedora using basic graphics mode" option which makes Anaconda use the Vesa driver. I think anyone can see the text in the installer under that mode. [....] -- Ahmad Samir -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
