På Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:22:16PM +0100, Markus Bertheau skrev: > if we add another font category, "Document Font", to the font > configuration applet, then there's for sure too much widgets on it. I'd > propose the following: > > Remove application font, desktop font and window title font in favour of > one preference. For window titles that font is used in bold. Why? Did you ever see how many space a bold font needs? Did you ever see how ugly bold fonts are? The number of widgets does not look like a problem for me. A descriptive header in the capplet will be needed, I think. > I don't see a lot of mamas wanting a different font for the desktop than > for applications. And that who cares that much about his window title > font is an artist anyway - in my imaginal set of personas for the GNOME > desktop there is no artist. My application font-size is 8pt. My desktop font-size is 20pt. My desktop icons are also scaled by a 1.5 factor. Why? Because I want to see _in a glance_ what's on my desktop. I put .desktop files, symlinks and other stuff on my desktop because I want them to be clearly visible. > This allows us to add a document font property and end up with less > widgets than before. "Less widgets" does not sound like a good rationale. "Better user experience" does, though. > 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. What about the "Details" button? mvrgr, Wouter -- :wq mail uws xs4all nl so much we don't know :: even our own true face -- after forever
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