[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Control Panel Font configuration

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 00:41, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> I prefer the first option ... and I'd also like an example of the font
>> size shown; preferrably a few words that wrap.
>
> I agree with both points.
>


It may make sense to allow setting of the font as well. While the
default "Sans" may be good enough for most European scripts, it may
cause problems for Arabic, Asian, South Asian scripts, etc. "Sans"
usually resolves to DejaVu Sans, etc, which often carry suboptimal
glyphs from non Latin scripts (to serve as a worst case fallback if
nothing else is available). This can be worked around with clever
fontconfig rules, but that would be painful to do for each and every
script out there, and it might be useful to allow the user to choose
the font-face along with the size.

-sdg-


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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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