Comment 897 for bug 1

Allen,

I have changed both the fonts and the colors. I use a customized version
of Xfce 4 Dusk theme. The point that Amir and I made is that the fobt
choices in Windows are of better quality than those in Uvunut. Also, in
Windows I can change the color of hyperlinks globally from the default
blue to say yellow which shows up better against black background, but
in Ubuntu Ican only do it for a select few porgrams, not every program.
Ones sthat I cannot change it in is Thunderbird or Life rea or
Evolution. And with the email programs, there are color issues related
to what appears to be poor integration with my choice of theme,
especially in the calendar section.

I am not a developer. I am a writer and I need my computer to be as
user-firendly for me as possible with as little hacking on my part as
possible. I do not have the technical skills to do serious hacking and
if I tried, chance are, I'd make a mess of things.

I really would like to get Ubuntu to the point where it did what I
needed it to do so I could stop switching back and forth so much and use
Vista only for the games that are Windows only which I play with my 12
year-old son. I have no love for Bill gates or the Borg of Redmond. The
less I need to use Windows the happier I'll be.
Allen Graham wrote:
> Why don't you just change the fonts and colors ? It's easy.
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:46 AM, John Botscharow
> <email address hidden>wrote:
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>> Amir makes some excellent points. I totally agree with him, especially
>> on the fonts.
>> I have both Windows Vista and Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my computer and I
>> am constantly switching back and forth, especially when I want to read
>> web pages I use Firefox 3.0 on both Vistan and Ibex, yet sites always
>> look better in Vista because of the fonts.
>>
>> I would also add that Ubuntu needs to add some of the cutomization
>> features for colors and font colors that are available in Windows and
>> the Windows version of Firefox,things like changing hyperlink colors for
>> those of us who are color blnd to some degree. I often have to oopy the
>> text from a web site to gedit in order to be able to read it properly
>> because I cannot do the same font and color customization in Ubuntu that
>> I can in Windows.
>>
>> Iverall, I see the new 8.10 version of Ubuntu as a small step backwars
>> deom 8.04. It is almost as frustrating to use as Vista.
>>
>> Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
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>>> Every six-months a version of Ubuntu is released to big PR hoo-hah.
>>> Blogs with mockups of the new theme for the upcoming Ubuntu version
>>> receive a lot of Diggs.
>>>
>>> And well, the graphic designers working on Ubuntu are doing a great job,
>>> but usability isn't necessarily a question of graphic design.
>>>
>>> New icons, wallpapers and themes should be the lowest priority by now.
>>> They are more than good enough.
>>>
>>> Hardware support, software alternatives for Windows-only products and
>>> overall stability are more important than a new wallpaper.
>>>
>>> (I would make an exception for fonts, though. Well-designed fonts are
>>> crucial and the current offering in Ubuntu is not anywhere near
>>> Windows.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Microsoft has a majority market share
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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>> Status in Club Distro: Confirmed
>> Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed
>> Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Confirmed
>> Status in JAK LINUX: Confirmed
>> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Invalid
>> Status in Launchpad Translations: Invalid
>> Status in Tabuntu: Confirmed
>> Status in Ubuntu: In Progress
>> Status in "bum" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in "casper" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in "djplay" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in "firefox" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in "ubuntu-express" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>> Status in The Breezy Badger: Invalid
>> Status in The Dapper Drake: Invalid
>> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed
>> Status in "linux" source package in Debian: Confirmed
>> Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed
>> Status in Tilix Linux: New
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>> Bug description:
>> Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
>> This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
>>
>> Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
>> restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
>> limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential,
>> globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
>>
>> Steps to repeat:
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>> 1. Visit a local PC store.
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>> What happens:
>> 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software
>> pre-installed.
>> 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
>>
>> What should happen:
>> 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like
>> Ubuntu.
>> 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and
>> benefits would be apparent and known by all.
>> 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
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