Re: Settings for screenshots (Was: reference gnome 2.2 docs (follow up))

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:59, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 05:04, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
<snip/>
> > Can someone look at a "plain GNOME"
> > and tell me what the correct settings for "plain GNOME" are please?
> > 
> > DEFAULT SETTINGS
> > Window manager: Metacity
> > Theme: Traditional (That is, Controls: Default, Window Border: Atlanta,
> > Icons: Gnome)
> > Fonts:
> >    Application font: sans 10
> >    Desktop font: sans 12
> >    Window title font: sans 10
> >    Terminal font: sans 12
> >    Font Rendering: Best shapes
> 
> Are these the Bitstream fonts?  I really think we should consider them
> to be the default Gnome fonts.  They're beautiful, and they're released
> under a very good license.
> 

AFAIK, Sans means "the first available font from the list of preferred 
san serif fonts specified in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf" (BTW: this should be
described in GNOME Admin guide). In recent versions of GNOME (those that
include Bitstream Vera fonts), this file indeed lists Vera as first
preferred choice for "Sans" 

Sasha