[etoys-dev] About dev image fonts and default directory

[Ricardo Moran]

Well, that's reasonable. Thanks for the explanation.
Regarding the preferences, it may be a good time to update the preference
browser, don't you think?

Richo

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> Well, indeed many developers tend to do this. This leads to them never
> noticing the problems that crop up only when you actually use Etoys as our
> users do. So IMHO at least the defaults for the dev image should be as close
> to the user image as possible.
>
> E.g., have you tried changing a preference in the default image? The layout
> is wrong, and the individual options are impossibly small. But since before
> now the developer image used different fonts and scaling than the user
> image, this never got fixed.
>
> I think it would be best to make the out-of-box experience as usable as
> possible, both for developers and users.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 06.05.2010, at 17:22, Ricardo Moran wrote:
>
> Oh, yes I resized the window. And I don't use the "Scale to fit" option.
> But I thought that, except from XO users, almost everyone did this.
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
>
>> On 06.05.2010, at 13:35, Ricardo Moran wrote:
>>
>> Well, it's okay. I guess it's a matter of taste (or display resolution) :)
>>
>>
>> Maybe you resized the window?
>>
>> The window size (800x600) and resolution (1200x900) is set up to roughly
>> match the OLPC XO's screen.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>
>
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