Google+ readability

[Robert Cole]

Hello, Charlie.

do you use any screen magnification on your Linux distribution? If in 
Ubuntu's Unity you can make use of the Compiz eZoom plugin (which I 
would often rely on under Unity), and under GNOME Shell, there is a 
great built-in magnifier which can greatly magnify the screen (even more 
than the eZoom plugin).

I am planning on writing a blog entry pretty soon on how to get 
magnification up and running under both Unity and GNOME Shell. 
Unfortuantely, I do not think that a magnifier exists for the GNOME 
Fallback Session at this time.

If this could be of help to you please let me know, and I will try to 
write back with teh steps to set up zooming keys. Just please let me 
know which desktop environment you use. There is also a Zoom feature 
under KDE as well which works pretty well.

I hope that I can be of some help to you.

Take care.

On 04/12/2012 10:33 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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> I am a user of Google+. The developers just made recent changes to
> this, which resulted in my being unable to use the site. I have some
> visual issues, requiring larger than normal fonts. My desktop is
> usually started with changing the DPI to 145. That grows the fonts
> nicely. Then, in my web browser, I set the minimum fonts to 20. That
> makes a lot of websites readable. It also makes a lot of web pages
> written badly unreadable.
>
> When I contacted Google developers about the issues with the google+
> site, they offered the only solution they have at this time. Switch to
> Chrome Browser, which appears to zoom text better than firefox.
>
> This seems more like Microsoft than open source to me, and I was hoping
> someone might have a better answer for reading web pages that fail to
> appear readable.
>
> - -- 
> Charlie Kravetz
> Linux Registered User Number 425914          [http://counter.li.org/]
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