Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Over all, we need more fonts so users can customize their desktop to the > point they can't envision using something else than Fedora. I would like Vista-style modal dialog accompanied with warning sounds and grayscaling of the rest of the screen, telling me that "Warning, you just upgraded package X through yum, and X wants to modify your font settings slightly, additionally you're currently running KDE and completing the upgrade of X will launch a gnome application which will launch the gnome settings daemon, which will also slightly change your current font hinting and antialising settings, and possibly also adjust your DPI by one or two units. Are you sure you want to continue?" There's nothing more unsettling than having something about the fonts change slightly, it's the same font but something's not right, but you can't quite tell what it is. It's blurrier/softer than before, or rougher / grottier / blockier than before, the size might be just slightly different too. You enter new data in openoffice calc, and rows mysteriously become one or two pixels higher as you press enter, but yet you're typing with the same font and size that the rest of the cells are, or atleast that's what ooo claims. You're feeling discomfort and perhaps a bit nauseous at first, a sensation somewhat similar to motion-sickness. Application after application succumb, either immediately or the next time you run them. Even konsole and gnome-terminal that usually are so benign and rarely try to stab you in the eyes turn evil! But they're often easier to get back on your side, and if all else fails you've still got xterm, hopefully. For the rest, you spend hours trying one font after another (or in the case of firefox, combinations of 5 fonts) in different sizes, but you just can't make it look the way it looked before... Heck, by now even if you'd stumbled on to the original settings, you've changed so much else that it's still not the same. I wonder if I'm the only one who's wrestled with this :) (And in this typing moment I just managed to get kmail and knode to look like they used to, but then xchat went bad, and I had already made it look like it used to... Or maybe I didn't get it to look like it did, just close enough, and I got used to that close-enough version, and now that it's really back to normal i'm getting discomfort from the slight change again?) Sorry for this long rant :) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
