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List:       konsole-devel
Subject:    [Konsole-devel] [Bug 131770] no bold is displayed in konsole
From:       Robert Knight <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-15 0:45:37
Message-ID: 20060915004537.14901.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2006-09-15 02:45 -------
> So, to clarify,
> 1. /trunk/ - bold is fixed

Well, when I said 'fixed', I mean that in trunk text with the bold attribute is \
always rendered as bold - no matter what the schema says.  This will ultimately have \
to change.      

As Lars explained to me, this is both incorrect and not ideal because:

- Personal preference (Not everyone likes the look of bold text)
- Bold text does not look good in some schemas in particular (eg. midnight commander, \
Linux console)


The existing system (assuming the bugs were fixed) is very flexible,  but has its own \
problems.  In short - it is complicated from an end-user's perspective and Konsole \
does not render text as expected 'out of the box'.

- The default Konsole scheme gives unexpected results.  I had no idea until Lars told \
                me that I could get bold to work as expected by switching to the \
                Xterm schema.
- It isn't obvious that the handling of bold text is controlled by the schema, and \
there is no way to quickly set the handling of bold text for all colours in a schema.

My thoughts on how to resolve this issue, looking at it from an end-user's \
perspective:

- Set the default Konsole schema to one which is similar to xterm and \
gnome-terminal's default (perhaps with some slight colour tweaks eg. make the \
'intensive green' less horribly bright).  Also look to see if there is anything else \
we can do to make Konsole's text look nicer out of the box.  eg.  Make sure that we \
use the proper Bold version of the font where available for rendering text. 

- Make it more obvious in the UI that bold text is handled by the schema, and provide \
an easier way to set the handling of bold text for a particular schema.  Checking / \
unchecking the 'bold' box for every colour in the palette is a painful process. 

A preview widget is somewhere on my to-do list for the future, and this would help to \
clarify the connection of bold text handling and schemas. \
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