[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Fonts-configuration

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/10/2010 07:00 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Hello,
> I just wanted to announce that I would be more than happy to do the
> remaining work to be done for
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Font_configuration
> The main work involved is to implement a xsettings manager which will
> be monitoring the relevant Sugar GConf keys and updating the
> corresponding Xsettings as and when they change. Currently I'm
> considering customizing the existing sample xsettings manager which
> comes with the spec[1] and see how that works out. The manager would
> be started during Sugar startup, as done in GNOME
> (gnome-settings-daemon).
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
> [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.html
>

Hi Sayamindu and Daniel,

great you are interested to work on this Feature!

* Settings-daemon
As you said, the settings-daemon would be a great thing to have for 
several reasons. I think a daemon would help us as well in terms of 
global key bindings.

* Owner
Should we change the owner of the Feature to you, or does Daniel keeps 
on monitoring the Feature?

* UI
Another low hanging fruit seems to me to have the UI to increase and 
decrease the font size. Daniel describes it as being an option in the 
control panel. Now as we have the gconf option, this sounds like a 
doable task to me. Maybe as well a task to someone else who wants to 
gain a few karma points with core hacking ;D

* Activity guidelines [1]
The activity guidelines seem to make sense at first glance. We should go 
through them in detail and communicate them. Regarding deprecating 
sugar.style.FONT_* - we should decide quickly before the API-Freeze.

@Daniel: Thanks for bringing this Feature up and for writing such a 
detailed on the point Feature page, congrats!

Regards,
    Simon

[1] 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Font_configuration#Consideration_for_activities