consider people with poor vision

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 15:46 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-06-15 12:12 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> 
> > The point is that there is only so much
> > space for text in the UI. Have you tried running anaconda in Japanese or
> > German at 800x600? When there's too much text on a spoke (those are both
> > languages which use a lot of characters to say the same thing compared
> > to English), the display of the spoke becomes entirely corrupted.
> 
> Who's forcing anyone to run a native display mode during installation? The 
> Mandriva/Mageia approach seems rather sensible: announce a limited choice of 
> display resolutions at initialization and in the docs, then use the highest 
> of the limited choices even when the device's native mode is much higher. 
> It/they default to 800x600, offering text and 1024x768 as alternatives, and 
> plant windows sized to 1024x768 in the middle of a larger background for any 
> who figure out how to (unnecessarily) get X into any mode higher than 
> 1024x768 during the OS installation process.

What? I didn't say anything about native resolutions. The point is that
anaconda's layout gets completely corrupted if text takes up too much
space. If you make the text bigger, which is what you're proposing,
people are inevitably going to start running into that problem.
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