Graphic interface considerations

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 21 01:06:25 UTC 2004


soraberri wrote:
> First,
> arriving to Fedora from Windows2000, my old operating system, I have 
> noticed that at the same screen resolution (1024x768) things are very 
> different from the point of view of object sizes. Icons, buttons and 
> panels are too big for my taste at this resolution settings. But I can't 
> use the next available resolution setting (1152x864) because then fonts 
> are too small for me. Maybe you can give me a hint about this topic.

Personally, I enjoy the higher screen resolutions and the relatively
smaller icons. But I push up the font sizes to compensate: in Gnome, use
Applications -> Preferences -> Font.

This should make the fonts clearer to read, at least on a CRT.

James.

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