Re: [Evolution] Font strangeness in 1.3.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 20:08, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 09:29, Not Zed wrote:
> > > Note the bizarre fonts. 
> >
> > Didn't happen here, fwiw.  Although it looks like it may be something to
> > do with the html conversion of the content, which adds url links and the
> > like, perhaps its poking in some weird characters that are only in that
> > font.  I'm using 'fixed' though, so perhaps its something font/pango
> > related instead.
>
> Hmmm. It also seems to do the same to any line which starts with a
> space. Does that help? :)

Hrm, looking at gtkhtml source, it looks like pressing F12 will dump the
html tree to stdout.  That might show something up if it works ... but
its probably the html converter anyway.

> > > Note also that the new messages in the folder index are no longer
> > > noticeably more bold than the read messages -- Evolution 1.2 looked a
> > > _lot_ better than this.
> >
> > I dont really understand this, are you referring to the picture?  It
> > looks ok to me.  Maybe you can turn off text blurring ...
>
> I think it's just the font it's using. Previously, the bold face and the
> normal face (of the font used by Evo 1.2) were sufficiently different
> that you can tell the difference at a glance. With the font used by Evo
> 1.3 on my box, however, the bold face isn't as different, and it's hence
> much harder to tell new mail from old.

Maybe its your screen/resolution, i've got a 1024x768 lcd screen and its
pretty obviously bold in that screenshot.  I dont know what can be done
about it, other than turning off antialiasing/trying a different font. 
Sub-pixel emboldening would allow a "finer" bold, perhaps that is the
issue.

> > Also, the composer seems to have taken to displaying a
proportionally
> > > spaced font, and word wrapping lines very early 
>
> > I'd tell you if i could start the composer :)
>
> Hehehe.

Sigh, now i can't even start the main window!  10 pm anyway, might crack
a pale and watch Australia beat Zimbabwe in the cricket ... (might make
it more interesting if they didn't though !)

 Z