[Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Dokuro
hello everyone, it has been a while now and it seems that Gnome has everything over sized buttons, spaces, fonts, i can't put mi finger on it but on a 800x600 screen everything is always so big... i reduced the font size from 10 to 8, it fixed things a little but almost all programs occupy the hole

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:17 +, Dokuro wrote: > hello everyone, > it has been a while now and it seems that Gnome has everything over > sized buttons, spaces, fonts, i can't put mi finger on it but on a > 800x600 screen everything is always so big... i reduced the font size > from 10 to 8, it f

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Luca Cappelletti
Hello Dario, On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Dokuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello everyone, > it has been a while now and it seems that Gnome has everything over > sized buttons, spaces, fonts, i can't put mi finger on it but on a > 800x600 screen everything is always so big... i reduced th

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
We could create a lighweight version similar to Fluxbox or FWM (used ni Damn Small Linux). So, the user could select download the lightweight or the other version. One can use a common platform and from there ask to the user: do you want the lightweight or the regular version?. Thank you a lo

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2008/3/12, Luca Cappelletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Dario, > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Dokuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello everyone, > > it has been a while now and it seems that Gnome has everything over > > sized buttons, spaces, fonts, i can't put mi finger on it but on a >

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Piotr Zaryk
Look at KDE - looks great even in 800x600. There should be an option to make gnome items smaller (simple comparison - gajim and psi from kde). Gnome should be more elastic - able to fit 800x600 and higher resolution screens. 2008/3/12, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/3/12, Luca Cappell

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Piotr Zaryk
Brainstorm idea connected with this topic: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/447/ 2008/3/12, Piotr Zaryk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Look at KDE - looks great even in 800x600. There should be an option to > make gnome items smaller (simple comparison - gajim and psi from kde). Gnome > should be more

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Dokuro
the compact theme worked great, still it is also the developers fault, not to make things better or leave a bunch of configuration options so the user could re-arrange things great help from the mail list! On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Piotr Zaryk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brainstorm id

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Dokuro
also i have used KDE on small monitors and some windows are too big for the screen too... so it is not just gnome programs, in kde i remember i had the accept buttons almost outside of the screen ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Dokuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the compact theme worked great, still it is also the developers fault, > not to make things better or leave a bunch of configuration options so > the user could re-arrange things It's not so clear cut. There are three types o

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-12 Thread Jelle de Jong
Dokuro wrote: > hello everyone, > it has been a while now and it seems that Gnome has everything over > sized buttons, spaces, fonts, i can't put mi finger on it but on a > 800x600 screen everything is always so big... i reduced the font size > from 10 to 8, it fixed things a little but almost all

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Chang
(Forgot to CC the list, sorry.) On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Have you considered asking a Question using the "Launchpad Answers" system? > > > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ > > I did not kn

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Chang
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Curtis Hovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not experience the described behaviour by the way in Ubuntu Gutsy. > F1 activates the Menu Bar. The keys 'p' and 's' do activates the > Places and System menu respectively, and pressing a key will select any > submen