On 2018-03-12 03:29, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:59:34PM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
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>> Steve, I appreciate your comments but you are really late to this
>> party.
>> The ASCII slim theme was finished in December and the layout and font
>> sizing
>> are identical to the one in Jessie which is about a year ago. The slim
>> panel
>> has also been posted to this list maybe a dozen times in the last
>> year. So
>> the Jessie and ASCII ship have sailed. I'll have a look at enlarging
>> the
>> font when I start on Beowulf but there will be no fussy buttons (for
>> both
>> technical and aesthetic reasons).
>>
>
> Sorry for interrupting. I am the least "graphically-sensible" here,
> but I guess we should try to make the default Devuan desktop as
> accessible as possible to visually-impaired users. I have no clue
> about how system fonts are managed in XFCE, but it shouldn't be
> impossible to have two icons in the default desktop to set the font to
> +4 and +8 points. Something we should definitely plan around for
> Beowulf, indeed.
>
> My2Cents
>
> KatolaZ
>
>

The login screen has been in that identical configuration for well over
a year (maybe 2) and there has not been one complaint about readability
(that has not been addressed). So this is a solution in search of a
problem. The slim panel is an image not text so there can be no buttons
to increase font size. I can however increase the font size on the image
itself.

golinux