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Roger Whitcomb commented on PIVOT-689:
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Ciao Sandro,
With regard to changing the default font: we found that the Java "logical"
fonts (such as "MONOSPACED", "DIALOG", etc.) support more characters in the
Unicode set since they are composite fonts. So, "Verdana" was not found to be
a good choice for us. Changing to "DIALOG" worked well for us to be able to
see Korean characters (for instance) correctly. None of the "Windows-only"
fonts had the characters to display Korean (not "Arial", "Verdana",
"Tahoma"...) but MONOSPACED, DIALOG, SERIF, and SANS_SERIF all did have these
characters.
So, my recommendation (and this is a big visual difference) would be to change
the default Theme font to "DIALOG 12" instead of "Verdana 11".
This also works better on non-Windows platforms, which don't typically have
these Windows fonts available. OSX, for instance, has Helvetica, but not Arial
or Verdana. Linux typically has Bitstream and DejaVu fonts, maybe Lucida, but
none of the other "Windows" fonts.
> Finishing touches on Skin Colors
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>
> Key: PIVOT-689
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-689
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: wtk-terra
> Reporter: Sandro Martini
> Assignee: Sandro Martini
> Fix For: 2.1, 2.0.5
>
> Attachments: ColorSchemeBuilder - dark.launch, ComponentExplorer -
> dark.launch, KitchenSink - Dark.launch, pivot689.patch,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_dark_flat_screencapt.png,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_dark_screencapt.png,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_default_flat_screenshot.png,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_default_screencapt.png
>
>
> Finishing touches on Skin Colors, some info here (and more later here in
> JIRA): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-579
> See if even the final part of this (not implemented) could be useful:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-245
> And there was another discussion (I have to find where, in nabble) is change
> some color index usage to have better visual appearance (of course
> retrofitting existing behavior when/if possible).
> Note that probably after these little changes, custom color json files should
> be a little updated.
> And a little thing on this:
> now only Tooltips doesn't use a palette color (they use an hard-coded color)
> ... what do you think to make them use the yellow-ish color at
> palette index 19 (or one of is variants, the 18 or 20) ? And use a similar
> (yellow-ish but a different color index, if possible) color on warnings.
> I could adapt a little that color in all Pivot palettes to look similar to
> what should be ... tell me.
> For example, someone remember the background color in Swing Tooltips (ok not
> the best in graphic design and colors :-) ), but with this little change we
> could also have this little feature, where in most palettes will be
> yellow-ish, but where needed could be different.
> Added some documentation in the Terra package JavaDoc file on color palette
> usage in the Terra Skin, to help anyone wants to write their custom colors,
> and then removed, probably the best place for this is in a Tutorial.
> Last, in ColorSchemeBuilder (and maybe even in the Kitchen Sink), add some
> Tooltips to see how they happen, but see where they makes sense.
> And maybe in ColorSchemeBuilder move some elements in the Tab2 or Tab3,
> grouping them by similar components (some componets should be added there).
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