Re: [Vala] Fonts problem.

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to ask you for an advice.
> I have build my gui with glade and it looks pretty well on my laptop but on
> some systems it doesn't look well.

Well, you have to make it so it looks good everywhere.

> The captions of labels some times don't fit in and the user sees only
> partial captions and the font it self is different and some time very ugly.

This should be handled by GTK itself. You aren't using a fixed layout, are you?
How the font looks is not your problem to solve. That kind of opinion
is quite subjective.

> So how you handle those kind of problems?

Use automatic container layout properly.

> Should I provide my used fonts with the installer?  some how make the size of fonts fixed?

No, definitely not. User preferences must never be overridden by your
application. Never.

> Thanks.

You're welcome :)