Hi, > That's one of the reasons we chose Verdana as the default font - it is > available on all systems. We also chose it because, at the time, it was one > of the fonts that rendered consistently well in Java2D, though this is less > of an issue now that AWT text rendering has improved. I agree.
> However, it should be OK to use a platform-specific font in our OS-specific > themes - we should just test them to make sure that they look OK on that > particular platform (for example, the Windows XP schemes don't need to look > perfect in Ubuntu, since they shouldn't really be used there anyways). My idea was to try to put in our custom color combinations (inspired by Mac, Ubuntu, etc) to have a default font (font and dimension) similar to that available be default in that platform ... but as you say, having such font available on most platforms is not so simple, so maybe I/we can make more tests on it for the 2.1 ... in next days maybe I can open a ticket for this. And last, I've just made other tests with Pivot 1.5.2 and latest 2.0 applets on a Ubuntu-10.04 VM, and (as said before, in another thread), to see applets working (from a visual point of view) I had to install the sun-java6 package and related plugin, then uninstall the IcedTea from the previous OpenJDK installation (but without removing the rest of OpenJDK), and finally set the sun-java6 as default Java. I'm sorry to say but probably the IcedTea plugin has some problem with our and others Applets. Just for reference ... Thanks again. Bye
