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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Terminus as default font in kde?
From:       Arnold Krille <kde () arnoldarts ! de>
Date:       2007-12-16 9:12:55
Message-ID: 200712161013.06093.kde () arnoldarts ! de
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Hi,

Am Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007 schrieb Martin K. Schreder:
> > 1) We live in the 21 century now. Using courier fonts all over the screen
> > is _so_ oldschool...
> And it's sooo much more pleasant to look stare at all day long ;)

In your opinion... I like the look of my >5 konsoles (each with more than 5 
terminals inside) with anti-aliased courier but I also like all the other 
apps and parts of the screen to use a nice sans serif font with kerning and 
these things...

> > 5) I don't really see any big difference between terminus and courier.
> > But I do see a big difference between your terminus screenshot and my
> > daily-use desktop. Guess which looks better. :-)
> I haven't seen yours, but I guess mine looks better ^^

Not really. But that is why taste is different on different people. And you 
are very well free to use a fixed (and non-scalable) font as your 
default. :-)

Only to define a new default for something like kde (with a user-base of 
millions and thus millions affected people) you can't just use something 
someone likes but you actually have to use something that looks good (not 
perfect) for a wide group of the user-base. And the comparison with the other 
big desktops show that the people switching to kde will be very disappointed 
if it isn't scalable fonts with anti-aliasing and kerning but some "hackish" 
fixed-width typewriter font. Linux is struggling to get away from the hackers 
image, you can't use a typewriter font as the new default because its better 
for coding and hacking.
:-)

Have a nice week,

Arnold
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visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/

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