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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#47185: acknowledged by developer ("View source" in fixed fonts)
From:       "Malte S. Stretz" <msquadrat.nospamplease () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-08-30 21:49:43
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On Friday 30 August 2002 23:22 CET Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Friday 30 August 2002 20:59, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Friday 30 August 2002 00:27, Marc Mutz wrote:
> >[...]
> > Making it possible for the user to choose a non-proportional font for
> > the source code view makes IMO much more sense than a configurable
> > folder list font.
>
> I completely agree.
> "Much more" than "none" is still "none" ;-)

You confuse addition with multiplication ;-)

> > Of course we already have a configurable Fixed
> > Width Font. So we could simply add a checkbox
>                           ^^^^^^
> > [ ] Use Fixed Width Font in Message Source Window
> >
> > But where should we put this checkbox? It would be much easier to
>                                                           ^^^^^^
> There we go. "It would be easier to". Easier/simple for _whom_? The
> programmer? Surely! The user? Barely. YACOttWdN (Yet Another Config
> Option that the World doesn't Need). Yet another option that confuses
> users.

Ummm... I don't want to stop you on your crusade against config options...

> > simply add another configurable font to our already existant font
> > configuration.
>
> <snip>
>
> Instead of making the source window _always_ use the configured fixed
> font, we add a config option that half of the users doesn't understand
> and the other half doesn't _want_.

As long as the source windows is fixed width I'm completely confident. You 
don't code KMail in Arial, do you?

Malte
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