On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
Maybe we get some of these things with the new Xrandr? I haven't been
following it too closely. The problem I can see here though, is that
Display may not be an obvious place to look for when wanting to set font
options.
I agree, especially now that we're all used to looking in the Fonts
capplet for them.
The trick if we did that would probably be to re-cast those settings as
something affecting the overall 'display quality', rather than something
specific to fonts. For that matter, it would probably be worth
revisiting whether we really need to offer such an exuberant choice of
font rendering settings anyway; Mac and Windows seem to manage fine with
much less.
Well, IIRC, the sort of concerns raised at the time were:
- Without the Close button, a blind user has to infer that the dialog is
instant apply by the absence of any action buttons. The presence of the
Close button gives them a more positive indication.
I think this goes against what the Novell studies show, and what I
suggested in the beginning. Does a Close button really indicate explicit
apply? I would suggest that for the many people who don't realise the
difference between Close and Cancel, it really only serves to confuse
matters further.
That may be true for sighted users, but I don't think Novell tested with
any users who were relying on screenreaders for their information (I'd
be delighted to hear otherwise, though), so I'm not sure it would be
wise to draw any conclusions about their needs from that particular
study.