Le Ven 30 septembre 2011 12:00, Daniel Drake a écrit : > Can anyone help me understand this behaviour? <rant> There's nothing to understand – this is a new major GNOME release, with developers that know better than everyone else, and solve problems by ignoring past experience and hardcoding their own preferences Someone Gnome-side decided to not trust xorg dpi and added a new heuristic to 'correct' it (the last time this occurred, it took several years of user complains before it was reverted; I'm quite sure there will be a new round of excuses why it is a good idea to try to second-guess xorg hardware detection instead of fixing the eventual xorg bugs. What it boils down to is some people GNOME-side have less work to configure their hardware – around which the new heuristic has been constructed — everyone else gets weird unwelcome side-effects, and apps using other toolkits won't agree on what font sizes mean) Another someone decided DejaVu (what you call Sans) was too old and tired, and preempted it with a new unfinished font. It seems people do not understand UI fonts are there to display text, and a font people do not notice at all is a good UI font. Mind you, Cantarell is a nice free and open font, but did it really need showing down people's throats to be advertised? Especially considering its coverage is too small to support a lot of languages, and its metric is too different from the available fall-back fonts for the fall-backs to be graceful? There's nothing to do apart from waiting for enough complains to pile up the people in charge get past their reality denial phase. </rant> -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
