Allegedly, on or about 29 April 2016, Bob Goodwin sent:
Xfce has what are probably the same
settings options and I use all the
appropriate ones for high contrast, text
size, etc. Wherever possible I choose
text not icons and white on black for
the text. However all of that has little
effect on Thunderbird and Firefox, even
Midori and SeaMonkey which I also use
where Firefox fails for me.
That may be because they use one of the other graphics engines, and XFCE
settings may not be applicable (totally or partially). If I recall
correctly, those kind of applications tend to be Gnome/GTK.
The remaining problem is that the
Thunderbird message text area seems to
have grown smaller over the years.
Yes, I've noticed that kind of malarkey when mum used to use it. I
haven't been able to stand Thunderbird for many years, because of the
painful way it does a myriad of things. Out of all the Linux clients
I've tried over the years, Evolution has been the least painful. And
that's been my experience, not finding a good client, but finding the
least annoying.
So I began looking for an alternative
e-mail application and thought Claws
might be a possibility but it presents a
different set of things to work around.
That and the fact that we are stuck with
a poor aspect ratio in the available
monitors. A larger monitor monitor gives
very little more room for text and I
tend to use only about 12 inches of
width for the message text to make it
easier for me to follow from line to
line with my vision ...
Just a thought, does using a monitor in portrait orientation work better
for you? Emails tend to be longer than wider, and clients *may*
organise their display better in another orientation.
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