Re: 21.5.28: default font changed from courier to lucidatypewriter
Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:
Ville Skyttä writes:
> Works for me, thanks.
On second thought, I can't agree with the original patch that goes
changing defaults that have worked for thousands of people for over a
decade on the basis of "works for me on another platform".
I don’t think that’s a reasonable position to take. It’s a default. When it
sucks, people change it, they only report bugs in pathological cases. (Or
when they have an in ...)
I mentioned that Cygwin install because it was the most baseline Unix I had
access to. It’s essentially an XFree86 of three or four years ago. And the
Courier that it picked up previously is okay--it’s the bitmap font from
Adobe that shipped with the early X11 distributions--except when you have a
physically small screen with a high resolution, as happens with
twentysomethings and laptops. In that case, lucidatypewriter is more
readable by a good margin. Please don’t commit your patch.
--
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more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was
assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki)
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