debian for elderly
I'm just sitting with a friend of mine, a 70+ years old woman showing her a linux Desktop. I've already manually hacked /usr/bin/startx to add -dpi 120... Is there any project inside debian specialized for the needs of elderly people? Such needs might be: - big fonts and icons - reduced complexity, minimal number of options - consistency in the UI Regards, Thomas Koch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201311301832.20016.tho...@koch.ro
Re: debian for elderly
Hi Thomas! Am Samstag, 30. November 2013, 18:32:19 schrieb Thomas Koch: I'm just sitting with a friend of mine, a 70+ years old woman showing her a linux Desktop. I've already manually hacked /usr/bin/startx to add -dpi 120... An alternative may be setting DisplaySize : merkaba:~ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/anzeige.conf Section Device Identifier Graphics card Option Monitor-LVDS1 Display EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Display DisplaySize 340 192 EndSection Identifiers are arbitrary. The command xrandr shows proper value for Monitor option name suffix. You can cheat with DisplaySize to enlarge all font sizes, but then other measurements like centimeters or inches don´t work as well anymore. Thus I suggest raising font sizes manually. But then that may be difficult with browsers. I often press Ctrl + to enlarge web pages. If I set larger fonts in webbrowsers as some sites still do not seem to get the differences between point and pixel which is crucial for this 143x143 ThinkPad T520 Full HD display I often get incorrect rendering. Chromium seems to remember Ctrl + zoom setting per page / URL. Is there any project inside debian specialized for the needs of elderly people? Such needs might be: - big fonts and icons - reduced complexity, minimal number of options - consistency in the UI I am not aware of. Within Debian. I read of something more general years ago, but do not remember details. There are for sure different icon and font sets. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/43312155.qmoUdxh9h6@merkaba
Re: debian for elderly
On 30/11/13 18:32, Thomas Koch wrote: I'm just sitting with a friend of mine, a 70+ years old woman showing her a linux Desktop. I've already manually hacked /usr/bin/startx to add -dpi 120... Is there any project inside debian specialized for the needs of elderly people? Such needs might be: - big fonts and icons - reduced complexity, minimal number of options - consistency in the UI I gave my old workstation to an elderly relative. I pulled out the HDD and provided a Debian Live bootable DVD instead. I've taken a similar approach to setting up various other users. It is based on squeeze, it has been relatively easy to establish video calls with Empathy and it is used for web browsing as well. Empathy and Iceweasel have desktop icons and they automatically open on boot. With Wheezy, I've had various troubles with Empathy (see bugs.d.o) and haven't tried to update the DVD images yet. The users have all been in somewhat distant locations too, some have simply been able to put the Live DVD into an existing system and use it without me ever visiting them in person. I also attended a presentation some years ago from a graduate student who had studied the needs of elderly users. I don't remember all the details but one of the more high level outcomes was a conclusion that font sizes and other tweaks are not automatically required just because somebody is elderly: there are elderly people with eyesight issues but a lot of them get by just fine if sensible font sizes are chosen in the first place. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529a3ac7.7000...@pocock.com.au
Re: Code of Conduct: picking up
Tollef Fog Heen dijo [Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:12:25AM +0100]: You mean you were using Debian resources to spread malware, and it seems You’re ridiculous. That’s not malware and cannot spread either «Malware, short for malicious software, is software used to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems.» There's a reason why I wrote malware rather than virus. Malware doesn't have to have any way of spreading by itself. Right. I'll adhere to the opinion expressed here by Tollef and Enrico. Knowingly sending mails with a code known to crash on display any Apple device displaying it might be fun (for some definition of fun) when sending to your friends, but it is far from acceptable in Debian lists, which are read by thousands of people, mirrored in sites independent from us. It is clearly damaging. People might look in the mailing lists for support. It is a hostile behaviour, and I also see it as a DMUP violation. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
