On 01/24/2016 06:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
Why? Why is it automatic that a text editor should be automatically monospace? (Sure, I use gedit with a monospace font, but that doesn't mean it's not useful with a proportional font).
Because text editors are used to edit plain text files where the only formatting is intentional spaces, and that formatting only works when every character is the same width.
Things like tables etc. in plain text files do not display correctly when a variable width font is used.
Therefore when selecting a font to use with gedit, the list should be pruned to monospace fonts unless you specify you want other fonts.
With how many fonts are installed on a typical desktop system, needing to hunt through the list for the monospace fonts is simply not acceptable, especially when the selection list doesn't even specify which are monospace.
It is thus a poorly designed interface, as it makes it incredibly difficult to do what the vast majority of users need to do when selecting a font for use with the application.
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