On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:30:11AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > The following only concerns systems using X and the client-side font > rendering framework from freedesktop.org. Windows and Mac OS X are > not affected. > > Starting with version 8.5, Tk uses freetype and fontconfig by default > to render fonts on platforms that support it. Gitk currently defaults > to the font Helvetica for the interface and Courier for diffs, and > both unfortunately look rather bad on screen in the default > configuration on many Linux distros with anti-aliasing and poor > hinting. > > It is better to default to "sans" and "monospace", which are mapped by > fontconfig to some appropriate font of the sysadmin and user's > choosing (typically Bitstream Vera Sans and Mono). The result looks > more sensible and it makes gitk feel like a well-behaved software > citizen since its fonts match other native apps. > > This patch does not change the appearance of gitk for users that have > already run it, since gitk uses the remembered UI and diff font names > from ~/.gitk > > Requested-by: Michael Biebl <biebl@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html