Re: [Fwd: "Document font" pref [was: Re: asking for approval for bug 160454]]

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi,

Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 14:57 -0600, Shaun McCance a écrit :
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 14:34 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - "Document font" pref
> > [was: Re: asking for approval for bug 160454]"
> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > From: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
> > > To: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
> > > Cc: release-team gnome org
> > > Subject: "Document font" pref [was: Re: asking for approval for bug
> > > 160454]
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:46:55 +0100
> > > 
> > > HI,
> > > 
> > > Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 11:50 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> > > > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 18:48 +0100, Christian Persch wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > the patch
> > > > > [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=58055&action=view] from bug
> > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160454 adds a "Document font"
> > > > > button in the control centre fonts capplet, to set the gconf key that
> > > > > exists since libgnome 2.12
> > > > > [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160453].
> > > > 
> > > > I'm curious; do you know which programs use this key?
> > > > The obvious ones *should*:  epiphany, tomboy, yelp, evolution.  Do you
> > > > know if they actually do that?
> > > 
> > > AFAIK, only Epiphany uses it, but it'll be trivial to make yelp and
> > > devhelp use it.
> 
> > Does anyone know if we use the "Document Font" gconf key anywhere other
> > than Epiphany?
> > 
> >   Federico
> 
> I didn't even realize we'd added it to libgnome already, and
> I'm the one who requested it.  Making Yelp default to it will
> be easy.  Devhelp and Evolution should also be changed to use
> it.  And Evolution should change its 'Terminal Font' string.
> Have you ever used a terminal inside Evolution?  I haven't.
> 
> But, what was committed to control-center changed the string
> 'Terminal font' to 'Monospace font'.  All well and good that
> we got rid of that horrible 'Terminal font' thing, but it
> should probably be 'Fixed width font'.  Yes, I did initially
> suggest 'Monospace font', and I cooked the initial patch that
> used that term.  But I changed my mind, because that's the
> sort of indecisive person I think I might possibly be.
> 
> Epiphany and Yelp both already say 'Fixed width', so let's
> get some consistency here.  Christian?

Yes, it should use "Fixed width", IMHO.

Regards,
	Christian