Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-28 Thread Dale
Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 07:24:28AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> Some sites, not many tho, have a printable version.  Gentoo for example >> has that.  Another common type of site, recipes.  I've seen a few that >> don't have printable versions but most do.  Other than that, you are >>

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:19:01PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > > 1) How do you cope with this problem? > > > > i cope by these: > > > > - use pixel-based fonts for everything as much > > > > as possible, specially for key apps like: > > > > terminal, window manager and browser.

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, September 5, 2020 1:09 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > Isn't that how the web originally WAS designed? That the web-site sent > content and the browser determined how it was displayed? sort of. it was not very clear and they could've gone either direction.

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 07:24:28AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Some sites, not many tho, have a printable version.  Gentoo for example > has that.  Another common type of site, recipes.  I've seen a few that > don't have printable versions but most do.  Other than that, you are > correct.  This is why I o

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 03/09/20 18:44, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: >> i think this problem that we have could've been >> avoided if the web was originally designed to only >> deliver content, without any power to dictate >> appearance, so that appearance is 100% a task that >> a local client should

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 03/09/20 18:44, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > i think this problem that we have could've been > avoided if the web was originally designed to only > deliver content, without any power to dictate > appearance, so that appearance is 100% a task that > a local client should choose. Isn't that how

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, September 4, 2020 12:06 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > with qutebrowser, i added these in my config.py > file: > > c.aliases['style-none'] = 'config-unset -t content.user_stylesheets' > c.aliases['style-night'] = 'set -t content.user_stylesheets nigh

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:19 PM, John Blinka wrote: > Could you elaborate on this?  Don’t know css, but could pick it up.  I’m > assuming that web pages already contain css code to direct their > appearance.  yes. > So you apparently have some alternate

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:50 PM, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, Everyone, hello big dawg! quick point: imo the problem of gray texts on white backgrounds, or scrollbars or whatever, that you have, is not related to aging. imo it's rather related to stupid web

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 1:45 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:50 PM, John Blinka > wrote: > > > > > Hi, Everyone, > > > > hello big dawg! > > > > quick point: imo the problem of gray texts on >

[gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread John Blinka
Hi, Everyone, As I have gotten older, reading what’s on my computer screen has become more challenging. I’ve adjusted with a big, high resolution monitor, bigger fonts, better fonts, and ophthalmologists. All helpful steps. Recently, I’ve been playing with different desktop appearance options.