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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: 800x600 default (Re: [Patch] Add dmask/fmask support into media:/)
From:       Olaf Jan Schmidt <ojschmidt () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-08-26 15:52:27
Message-ID: 200608261806.50812.ojschmidt () kde ! org
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[ Gary L. Greene Jr. ]
> 800x600 displays (in the US anyway) are far more rare than that page
> suggests. 

The majority of KDE users are outside of the US. In some countries, reused 
computers are in very common use. Translations will make the dialogs even 
bigger in some cases.

Some users need to use bigger font sizes to be able to read the text, and the 
percentage of these users is steadily increasing as old people get more and  
more used to computers and as existing computers users grow old.

I am against against declaring all those users unwanted, as would happen if we 
drop the 800x600 rule.

Besides, even those users with big screens and small font sizes are happy 
prefer well-designed windows that don't overload them with information.

BTW, I still own and occasionally use a 800x600 notebook.

Olaf

-- 
Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards 
accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of 
http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/
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