> On 09 Mar 2016, at 22:43, Michael Reed <m.r...@mykolab.com> wrote: > > On 03/09/16 15:47, Joerg Jung wrote: >> >>> Am 09.03.2016 um 01:59 schrieb Michael Reed <m.r...@mykolab.com>: >>> >>> I prefer terminus font, but I don't see why this is listed as a >>> dependency; the system monospace font, DejaVu, works fine with dmenu. >>> >>> If the user likes terminus font then they can install it and use it w/ >>> dmenu, but otherwise it's just an unneeded dependency. >> >> This was discussed several times before. The short summary of the >> current situation is: since some years all of our "suckless ports" contain >> various minor tweaks to make them look similar when used together, >> including for example: same terminus font and sizes, same grey color >> scheme, similar key bindings, prefer base tools over ports (e.g. curl vs >> ftp in surf), etc, yalla, yalla... >> >> So they are all not really vanilla because some devs (including me) >> prefer to have a sane desktop look'n feel. Your change below makes >> sense but should be applied to other suckless ports as well... BUT >> at least tabbed does not (yet) have xft support (already committed >> in HEAD but not released) and thus would look badly and not unified >> then. So for now, I'm still (slightly) against this diff. > > Thanks for the explanation; I've attached a new patch. At least in the x11/ > folder, dwm was the only port still using terminus, besides tabbed. > > If you'd still like to wait until tabbed has a new release, I can resend an > updated patch then.
I would prefer to wait. I asked tabbed upstream already in IRC to tag a new release.
