Re: Font Configuration Applet

[Markus Bertheau <twanger bluetwanger de>]

В Вск, 05/12/2004 в 00:28 +0100, Samuel Abels пишет:
> On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 23:22, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > Remove application font, desktop font and window title font in favour of
> > one preference. For window titles that font is used in bold.
> 
> As for the Desktop font: No way. Do not touch it. A nice desktop font
> has to be different from the application font, if only for the size.

Maybe for the size, but I'm not convinced of that. Maybe just use the
general font in a bigger size for that (without a preference). What
persona needs a desktop font different from the application font?

> For the window title fonts... maybe. Though there are probably themes
> out there that are designed for other fonts.

When it's eye candy vs. less preferences, I think less preferences is
more important. The window title font and the desktop font preferences
can probably be left in gconf easily, as that code is already there.

> Also, remember that some
> fonts do not have "bold".

That's a problem of these fonts and maybe distributions should not ship
such fonts. Fonts the user added don't count - if they don't have bold,
then the window title will just not be bold.

>  We always need to make compromises between
> "how much candy do we add" and "how much choice do we need". I do not
> know whether five fonts are too much, but four looks perfectly
> acceptable to me.

I think four is too much already.

> > In my opinion the four variants for anti aliasing should also be reduced
> > to two: LCD or not. Of course it would be better if this could be auto
> > detected.
> 
> I guess the availability of a "Monochrome" rendering is rather a
> technical reason (like, monochrome monitors, though I'm not sure whether
> we actually still support this) then eye-candy, so that would leave us
> with at least three options - monochrome, LCD and non-LCD.

I'm not sure if that's the reason for the existence of the monochrome
option. I doubt it. It's maybe just for those that don't want
antialiasing.

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Markus Bertheau <twanger bluetwanger de>