On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 10:35:47AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Hello Bagas, [...] > > The solution > > ============ > > > > Uniform the font choices by leveraging web fonts. Most of people reading > > the kernel docs should already have modern browser that supports this > > feature (e.g. Chrome/Chromium and Firefox). The fonts are downloaded > > automatically when loading the page, but only if the reader don't > > already have ones installed locally. Subsequent docs page loading will > > use the browser cache to retrieve the fonts. If for some reasons the > > fonts fail to load, the browser will fall back to fallback fonts > > commonly seen on other sites. > > So my immediate response to this is pretty uniformly negative. > > - If you don't like serif, tweaking conf.py is easy enough without > pushing it on everybody else. > > - I'm not thrilled about adding a bunch of binary font data to the > kernel, and suspect a lot of people would not feel that the bloat is > worth it. > > - The licensing of the fonts is not fully free. +1 to all of Jon's points. We already have to deal with folks arguing against .rst and pushing for us to just use plaintext for everything. I suspect their reaction to this would be, to put it politely, even less restrained. Thanks, David
