[Differential] [Commented On] D1816: Switch to Hack as default monospace font
dhaumann added a comment. One more comment, can we add the kateschemarc file to the update script? We need to change this line: Font=Oxygen Mono,9,-1,7,50,0,0,0,0,0 i.e. searching for "Font=Oxygen Mono," and replacing it with "Font=Hack," should do the trick. There may be multiple occurances of "Font=", and all should be replaced. Can we extend this? REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jriddell, #plasma, #plasma:_design, dhaumann Cc: sebas, mak, jensreuterberg, palimaka, dhaumann, mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, abetts
[Differential] [Updated] D1816: Switch to Hack as default monospace font
dhaumann added a comment. Yes, the font faces are all there, so HACK does qualify. On a personal note, I think the 'i' looks a bit strange, but that's probably to distinguish it form better form a 'j'. Here, to my eyes, the 'i' from the Source Code Pro font looks better, but given I did not further study on whether both fonts are free, or which font provides more glyphs. So yes, we can just try HACK, and if people complain, still change. REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jriddell, #plasma, #plasma:_design, dhaumann Cc: sebas, mak, jensreuterberg, palimaka, dhaumann, mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, ali-mohamed, abetts ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
[Differential] [Commented On] D1816: Switch to Noto Mono as default monospace font
dhaumann added a comment. Or what about the Source Code Pro font? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Pro REPOSITORY rPLASMAINTEGRATION Integration for Qt applications in Plasma REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jriddell, #plasma, #plasma:_design Cc: jensreuterberg, palimaka, dhaumann, mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, sebas ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
[Differential] [Commented On] D1816: Switch to Noto Mono as default monospace font
dhaumann added a comment. Hm, that doesn't sound as if the problem will solved within the next weeks. I personally am using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono [1] in Kate. I don't know about its completeness, though. It is often said that the DejaVu fonts [2] extend the Bitstream Vera fonts and are more complete, but also look a bit different. Thing is, would that be an alternative? If not, there is always the possibility of hard-coding it in Kate, since as said, a font without bold and italic font faces is a no-go for us. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts REPOSITORY rPLASMAINTEGRATION Integration for Qt applications in Plasma REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jriddell, #plasma, #plasma:_design Cc: jensreuterberg, palimaka, dhaumann, mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, sebas ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
[Differential] [Commented On] D1816: Switch to Noto Mono as default monospace font
dhaumann added a comment. Maybe I should have added: Since you already contacted the Noto devs on the googlegroup, can you also ask whether a bold-face variant and italic variant exists? REPOSITORY rPLASMAINTEGRATION Integration for Qt applications in Plasma REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jriddell, #plasma, #plasma:_design Cc: jensreuterberg, palimaka, dhaumann, mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, sebas ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
[Differential] [Commented On] D1816: Switch to Noto Mono as default monospace font
dhaumann added a comment. It's important to chime in here. There is a huge issue with fonts in general, that do not provide all font faces. What we need is: regular (sometimes called roman?), bold, italic (sometimes called oblique), and bold italic (4 flavours in total). As background: Oxygen Mono does only contain the font face "Regular". As a result, Kate, Kile, KDevelop (and every other app that uses the fixed font) cannot display anything in bold and/or italic. This already happened with the Oxygen font. As a consequence, Kile is pretty much hard to use, since the visual structure is hard to grasp, or C++ keywords like 'return' or 'void' are not thick in KDevelop/Kate. That said, looking into Noto Mono, this font has the exactly same problem. In other words: Noto Mono is a big no-no, just like Oxygen was (we unfortunately only noticed this issues very late). The issue is even worse: Since users already use Plasma, they have "Oxygen" in kateglobalsrc. The above patch fixes this. But the "Oxygen" font also is in kateschemarc, for instance. This also needs to be fixed (and probably additionally blacklisted in the ktexteditor framework). So from my side, this patch has the same problems as Oxygen Mono already had... If you have further discussions about fonts, please consider also CCing kwrite-devel. REPOSITORY rPLASMAINTEGRATION Integration for Qt applications in Plasma REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jriddell, #plasma, #plasma:_design Cc: dhaumann, mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, jensreuterberg, sebas ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
