The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 7:45 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by sramkrishna
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

How old are you? Given your "Unless it's related to eye sight issues, you shouldn't need to tweak a font" comment I suspect you must be in your twenties, at most. If you were older, you would know ocular focal resolution slowly but steadily degrades with age because you'd be experiencing it yourself. Hence you'd know that it's quite normal for computer users to increase font sizes with age - preferably with the finest-grain increases possible.

Eye sight "issues" are not exceptional. There is a continuum of vision ability, even across any one individual's lifetime. "Small", "medium" and "large" does not cover it.

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The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 18, 2011 12:36 UTC (Fri) by lab (guest, #51153) [Link] (1 responses)

> How old are you? Given your "Unless it's related to eye sight issues, you shouldn't need to tweak a font" comment I suspect you must be in your twenties, at most. If you were older, you would know ocular focal resolution slowly but steadily degrades with age because you'd be experiencing it yourself. Hence you'd know that it's quite normal for computer users to increase font sizes with age - preferably with the finest-grain increases possible. Eye sight "issues" are not exceptional. There is a continuum of vision ability, even across any one individual's lifetime. "Small", "medium" and "large" does not cover it.

Absolutely spot on! My font requirements are quite different than they were 15 years ago (to my own amazement in the beginning).

hoping I can set nice big fonts the way I like em

Posted Mar 18, 2011 21:19 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

My sight is good, but my work is text-intensive and eye fatigue is the weakest link when I've a marathon work session. Long-term eye health is really important to me, so I hope GNOME3 lets me set fonts to how I like them.