Kenneth, Could you please address the issues that have been raised in bug #532641? As far as I can tell, there are no technical reasons for keeping the window controls at a fixed size.
Thanks, Tom On 04/05/2010 04:40 PM, Thomas Jaeger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure how to get the theme developers' attention, so I'll try > this mailing list. I feel that the new theme is a step backwards in > terms of accessibility, making ubuntu harder to use for people with > less-than-perfect eye sight, user of high-resolution screens and people > who use their laptop in adverse lighting conditions (e.g. sunlight). > > There are two main issues with that I have with the current design of > the theme. The first issue is the size of window decorations. When > increasing the size of the title bar font (or the dpi settings), the > window decorations don't scale up accordingly [1]. This makes it > unnecessarily hard to hit the close, minimize or maximize button and > increases the chances of hitting the wrong one. This is exacerbated by > the fact that there is no visual indication of whether the close button > is currently pushed down. The rationale for this is supposed to be that > metacity doesn't support scaling buttons, but I found this not to be > true in my own testing (see [1]). > > The second issue is contrast: It just doesn't make any sense to me why > text should be gray-on-white instead of black-on-white. Having less > contrast means you have to crank up display brightness while on battery, > wasting precious battery life or causing more eye strain. It is quite > shocking to me how much clearer text on the screen becomes if I adjust > the colors so that text appears black. This might not be much of a > concern on current monitors, which don't have to sacrifice backlight > brightness for power consumption, but it is on most laptops. > > Thanks, > Tom > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532641 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
