From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 1 23:26:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27474 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27447 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12490; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:31:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990202183105.F10808@caamora.com.au> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:31:05 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: On Desktops and defaults Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Chat References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 07:26:04AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org to all concerned, On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 07:26:04AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Just a note before arguments get momentum: > > Offcourse, whenever possible, anyone responsible for such changes into the > BSD system, like those we discussed the last 48 hours about KDE and default > desktops, will make sure that whatever he adds to the install process will > made modular so that no desktop will get major preference above the other. > > Doing otherwise might IMHO violate the principle that is Unix, e.g. > customisable to the max with nothing forced down ones throat. to this i would like to add .. to the person doing this thing, please cocider adding a menu item or a confguration option that would allow a sight impeared person to use kde out of teh box as well .. a basic font like lucida or century schoolbook teh foundry matters little (sort off), what is most important is teh size. it needs to be about 20 point. that is about 3 times the current standard size used as teh main 'font' and the theme to be carried through to all teh ancilliary fonts fro window decorations and in window functionality. i am currently working in fvwm2, experimenting with various fonts working out what works on a pair of once top notch screens, a nec multisync mk1 (640x480 and 560x800), and nec 3d (640x480, 800x600 and one of teh worst 1024x768 i've seen). regards and thank you in advance jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message