First off Thank you all. The rest of my posting is bottom posted. On 28/01/11 13:16, Dave Howorth wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/01/27 14:09 (GMT) Dave Howorth composed:
Changing the font and icon sizes is the best way to go if possible, since changing the DPI means that setting the magnification to 100% in programs like gimp or acroread no longer works properly.
People changing to a lower screen resolution to make things bigger are obviously not interested in whatever 100% size or magnification level are supposed to be being accurate. It's legibility they are after, even at the expense of wild distortions. :-)
Since they can have both good legibility and high resolution, why cripple their possibilities by supporting an inappropriate path?
BTW, one other thing that hasn't been mentioned yet IIRC is the existence of screen magnifier applications. I wish the story was as simple as more clarity or DPI. Unfortunately I am short sighted, wear glasses and need to sit approximately 1m away from my screen, a 22" Samsung SyncMaster. I am finding that I am straining my eyes to read text and without actually losing screen real estate, I can adjust the resolution so that teh estate is readable from end to end, given that I have already increased the size of the Kicker(Task) Bar.
The resized estate also increases the font size but keeps it all in relation to the rest, thus satidfying me that images I am looking at are probably distorted but mostly in relation to everything else. In addition the BIGGEST bonis is that I can read the text without having to magnify it to such an extent that I would forever be moving scroll-bats. Thanks again, and I'll report back after making the changes. Hylton -- ======================================================================== Hylton is a Lions Club member of Fish Hoek Lions Club(District 410A) Part of the worlds largest NGO Lions Clubs Int http://www.lionsclubs.org This Lion is using openSuSE Linux since v9.0 with KDE ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org