I've had a chance to explore a Ubuntu system at the weekend, dual boot and also running on a Microsoft Virtual Machine. Booting straight into GNU/Linux worked very well, but I had some problems I'd like to report with the virtual machine. On the whole the interface was good, and I'm impressed with the effort to make the GUI modern and user-friendly
When I went to the preferences setup to enlarge all the fonts to around 20 points, I found that the dialogue box was too big for the virtual machine window, even though I had stretched it as far as it would go. I could thus not get at the OK button to approve my large print settings. I'm wondering if making the whole panel scrollable would be a useful fix for that? Also, on the system (which I had not installed, and I'm not familiar with what is possible yet) there were no VI accessibility tools such as a magnifier, akin to the Microsoft magnifier. The accessibility options that I could see were for the keyboard mostly. I'm thinking that the way it was installed may well have resulted in missing tools. Are there more tools available? I had not really clicked that Ubuntu was based on debian. On firing up Vim I found that syntax highlighting is disabled, and on downloading a new runtime, etc, (which I had to do via another machine, not using apt-get) I still could not find a --with-features=big distribution. This seems an unusual choice (not for a linux intended to be really small, perhaps) because open source needs contributers, and anything that makes it easier for programmers is likely to increase that. Syntax highlighting seems to be the norm for editors these days. Yes, I can compile it myself of course, but there's a reason for using a packaging system... How would I determine if a --with-features=big package exists? Thank you, Hugh -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility