Hi!
Now, I understand some more context. But, I also have some new
questions.
1.)
If I type "fc-match monospace" into a Debian Lenny Shell, then
I get "DejaVu Sans Mono" as a result. This is a deterministic
way I was looking for.
Even if "fc-match courier" yields a "Nimbus Mono L" (Lenny) rather
than a "Courier" (Etch), nevertheless the name "courier" is a more
precise or concrete font than a name like "monospace".
The other way around: The name "monospace" is definitely
a font family (a replacement / a placeholder), whereas
"courier" can be a real font.
Would it be appropriate that Firefox displays such definite
replacements such as "monospace" in a different way
than the rest of the list?
Currently, monospace is the first entry, and then the
rest of the list follows in an alphabetical order. But for
me (who was not acquainted with such replacement
concepts, who thought "monospace" was a real font)
the fact that "monospace" stands at the top of the list
was not enough for people like me to get the concept.
I think, it would be less confusing for laymen to
additionally:
* display replacements like "monospace" more
noticeable, for example italicized
* write a hint behind the replacement name
- not "monospace" as now
- but "monospace (system settings)"
- or "monospace system settings"
- or "monospace (system default)"
- or "monospace (fontconfig settings)"
- or "monospace (fontconfig default)"
- or "monospace (operating system provided)"
- or "monospace (os provided)"
* make a horizontal line between "monospace (system settings)"
and the remaining list entries
Additionally to the fact that the replacement resides at the top
of the list, the italicizing, the hint in parenthesis and the
horizontal line, they all together would help to more quickly
realize the wohl context.
2.) At the Preferences, when I open the fonts configuration box
and click at the pull down menu for "Monospace", then there
is a list of "monospace", some more real font names such
as "Century Schoolbook L", a horizontal line, a "serif" entry,
a "sans-serif" entry and then some more real font names
such as "Balker".
Why is there a horizontal line in the middle of the list?
The only thing I can discover is that the second part of
the list has some more exotic fonts, but the first part
also has exotic fonts. Again, I am guissing. Why
cannot be there a documentation that mentions the
cause of the splitting of the list? A non-clickable list
entry at the top of ich list part could solve the problem:
- [list of whatsoever these fonts] --- please choose below
- /monospace (system settings)/
- Century Schoolbook L
- ...
- horizontal line
- [list of whatsoever other fonts] --- please choose below
- /serif (system settings)/
- /sans-serif (system settings)/
- Balker
- Bitstream Charter
- ...
In retrospect, I consider these two questions as suggestions
to improve the software so that new users would understand
the software more easy.
Please, give me some statements if my suggestions are
reasonable enough to be included in later versions of the
software (Firefox, SeaMonkey, ...).
dolphin
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