I just ran across a nice little summary of problems with
Ubuntu from somebody who set up a machine for an
older friend a while ago, and has been maintaining it ever since.
http://web.oesterchat.com/2008/12/30/was-alles-schief-geht-wenn-man-ubuntu-vorfuehren-will/
English robotranslation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=+http%3A%2F%2Fweb.oesterchat.com%2F2008%2F12%2F30%2Fwas-alles-schief-geht-wenn-man-ubuntu-vorfuehren-will%2F&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"Probleme mit der Einstellung der Schriftgr??e
Da man mit Mitte 50 nicht mehr so gute Augen hat, musste die
Schriftgr??e des Systems angepasst werden. F?r GNOME ist das kein
Problem: rechte Maustaste auf den Desktop und Schriftgr??en ?ndern.
... [Bei] WINE: Man kann dort zwar auch die Schriftgr??e ?ndern, aber
wird die Schrift zu gro?, wird immer mehr von den Buchstaben von unten
abgeschnitten und irgendwann kann man gar nichts mehr lesen. Argh!
Auch WINE-Anwendungen sollten die Schriftgr??e des Systems automatisch
?bernehmen."
"Problems with setting text size
Since eyes don't work so well once you hit your mid-50's, the text
size of the system has to be adjusted. For Gnome, that's no problem;
right click on the desktop and change the font size. .... But with
Wine, although you can change the font size, it becomes too big, and
more and more of the letters are cut off at the bottom, and at some
point, you can't read anything anymore. Argh! Wine applications
should automatically use the system's text size settings!"
The frustrating thing about text size settings in Wine is that they're
not universal... the screen resolution setting in winecfg (which I
assume he was trying) doesn't control everything, e.g. menu items and
text in Notepad. It would be nice if we at least had a winecfg
setting for that, too.
(While playing around, I noticed that our wordpad doesn't behave
well, and filed http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16686
for one problem.)
