> The largest amount of responses (29.8%) said that it is a real pain to keep > these themes up-to-date and working
> An overwhelming majority of the respondents insist that we don't need to > change a thing and that other apps don't offer grand alternatives at 36.5% I found these two an interesting contrast, although developers might have been thinking about different things. On 8 September 2016 at 15:41, Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Jared Wein <j...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> [...] > > > Thanks for posting the results. A couple of observations... > >> >> Why do you install themes? >> [...] At 12% of responses was closer integration with the operating system > > > Do the raw responses have further detail on what OSes are involved, and what > kind of closer integration? > > I'm guessing this is mostly Linux (due to the gazillion different desktop > environments and OS themes), though I also see the 28th-most-used theme on > AMO is for making Firefox look like IE8. > >> >> What capabilities would you like themes to have? >> [...] Also at 3% of responses were requests from users who require larger >> icons and improved readability of the browser's user interface for improved >> accessibility. Not far behind, and ironically next in the order of >> responses, were requests for a smaller browser UI (2%). These users >> generally want to maximize the amount of screen space that web pages can >> use. > > > I'm a little surprised "make things smaller" came in so low! > > "Make things bigger" is somewhat curious... On Windows this is typically > done by adjusting the display scaling factor in the OS settings. I wonder if > people don't know about that, or are looking to make Firefox -- specifically > -- larger than normal. I'm unclear on what Linux offers these days, and > while I think OS X supports this internally it's not exposed in any UI. > (Apple's preferred route seems to be screen zooming. Which is neat, I use it > all the time and have normal vision.) So I'd be curious to understand this > use-case better. > > Separately from themes, I think it would be a good idea to consider adding > preferences UI for the default zoom-level of page content in Firefox. I > think it's technically easy to do the same thing with chrome, but that would > seem pretty strange to expose. > > Justin > > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
