Re: AlienVFS: support for mainstream distros

Magnus Johnsson <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:00:35 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
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Have you considered making the patches yourself, and sending it in?

Den 12 dec. 2017 8:28 fm skrev "Steve Litt" <[email protected]>:

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:12:09 +0100
> Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 10 December 2017 at 01:25, Steve Litt <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Have you considered normal sized fonts and reasonable contrast so
> > > people with bad vision can use Gobo Linux?
> >
> > Steve, I appreciate that it's an issue, but by continually going on
> > and on about this to the wrong people, you are annoying people and
> > alienating them from your cause.
> >
> > The site here is Github. Luis does not own Github. He cannot control
> > the fonts it uses.
>
> You think I'm griping about a website? You talk earlier about my
> "continuously going on about this", so you must have read that my
> objections were the fonts and contrast of Gobo Linux itself, especially
> the system menu, but also the print on the window manager's windows.
>
> You must have read in my continuous going's on that for a person with
> bad vision, Gobo is a buried shovel: If only I could read it, I could
> enlarge the fonts, and if only I could enlarge the fonts, I could read
> it.
>
> And we're not talking about supplying clock-face fonts to cater to
> those with bad vision. I'm simply saying, stop being actively hostile
> to those with bad vision. Because 9 point fonts and contrasts that are
> maybe 20% different can only be termed as bad vision hostile.
>
> >
> > Secondly, any decent web browser allows you to zoom the fonts as you
> > wish.
>
> As I mention both in this reply and in my previous continuous going's
> on, I don't want to enlarge a browser's fonts, I want to enlarge the
> whole GUI system's fonts and the font of the framebuffer.
>
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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<div dir=3D"auto">Have you considered making the patches yourself, and send=
ing it in?</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">D=
en 12 dec. 2017 8:28 fm skrev &quot;Steve Litt&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:=
[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;:<br type=3D"at=
tribution"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bor=
der-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:12:09 +010=
0<br>
Liam Proven &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&=
gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; On 10 December 2017 at 01:25, Steve Litt &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:slitt@t=
roubleshooters.com">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Have you considered normal sized fonts and reasonable contrast so=
<br>
&gt; &gt; people with bad vision can use Gobo Linux?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Steve, I appreciate that it&#39;s an issue, but by continually going o=
n<br>
&gt; and on about this to the wrong people, you are annoying people and<br>
&gt; alienating them from your cause.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The site here is Github. Luis does not own Github. He cannot control<b=
r>
&gt; the fonts it uses.<br>
<br>
You think I&#39;m griping about a website? You talk earlier about my<br>
&quot;continuously going on about this&quot;, so you must have read that my=
<br>
objections were the fonts and contrast of Gobo Linux itself, especially<br>
the system menu, but also the print on the window manager&#39;s windows.<br=
>
<br>
You must have read in my continuous going&#39;s on that for a person with<b=
r>
bad vision, Gobo is a buried shovel: If only I could read it, I could<br>
enlarge the fonts, and if only I could enlarge the fonts, I could read<br>
it.<br>
<br>
And we&#39;re not talking about supplying clock-face fonts to cater to<br>
those with bad vision. I&#39;m simply saying, stop being actively hostile<b=
r>
to those with bad vision. Because 9 point fonts and contrasts that are<br>
maybe 20% different can only be termed as bad vision hostile.<br>
<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Secondly, any decent web browser allows you to zoom the fonts as you<b=
r>
&gt; wish.<br>
<br>
As I mention both in this reply and in my previous continuous going&#39;s<b=
r>
on, I don&#39;t want to enlarge a browser&#39;s fonts, I want to enlarge th=
e<br>
whole GUI system&#39;s fonts and the font of the framebuffer.<br>
<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
Steve Litt<br>
December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://www.troubleshooters.<wbr>com/thrive</a><br>
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