On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 01:17 +0300, Jimmy Angelakos wrote:
Salane Ashcraft wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jimmy Angelakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please allow me to speak frankly:
I don't really see what all the fuss is about with that Droid font.
Would you make a section in
Kido Mariano wrote:
Your Droid screenshot is off. Try typing
sudo fc-cache -v
to update your font cache, then try again (and logoff and log on again
or something). It seems the desktop is using DejaVu Sans as fallback
font. I'll try to post another screenshot at the wiki to show how Droid
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:25 +0300, Jimmy Angelakos wrote:
Fixed. Thank you for the tip. Needless to say new users should not have
to do this for Droid to look ok on their screens.
No problem. :) I think it's GNOME not being able to auto-update the font
cache, not a problem with the Droid
Beautiful. Guess that's that. Onward and whatnot...
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Salane Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its very good- I actually replaced all of my fonts in windows, mac, and
desktopbsd with them.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 23:21 -0400, Cory K. wrote:
Here's a detailed post about the Droid font.
http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-droid-isnt-answer.html
About this one...
I'd agree with the first point. :] However, your UI font won't appear as
large paragraphs all the time. As
According to a comment on this blog
posthttp://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/16/droid-sans-mono-a-sw.html#comment-83140,
the droid fonts are, in fact, not free. So whether they look good or not is
beside the point, as they cannot be included due to licensing restrictions.
Smartboy
On Sun, Jul 6,
AA Boy wrote:
According to a comment on this blog post
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/16/droid-sans-mono-a-sw.html#comment-83140,
the droid fonts are, in fact, not free. So whether they look good or
not is beside the point, as they cannot be included due to licensing
restrictions.
Hey guys - read way back in this discussion- they are to be released as open
source. Dont jsut read some old blog post and assume we cant use them.
Salane
How about we end this discussion? Ken I think is going to contact them to
make sure.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL
On Sunday 06 July 2008 17:25:03 Salane Ashcraft wrote:
Hey guys - read way back in this discussion- they are to be released as
open source. Dont jsut read some old blog post and assume we cant use them.
Salane
How about we end this discussion? Ken I think is going to contact them to
make
I figured out how to fix it. Thanks for letting me know!
Salane
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Kenneth Wimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 06 July 2008 17:25:03 Salane Ashcraft wrote:
Hey guys - read way back in this discussion- they are to be released as
open source. Dont jsut read
Please allow me to speak frankly:
I don't really see what all the fuss is about with that Droid font.
Deja Vu Sans is a beautiful font, especially the Condensed version I
use as my UI font. It supports many languages and looks quite modern
without being very blocky as Troy calls it.
Droid has
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jimmy Angelakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please allow me to speak frankly:
I don't really see what all the fuss is about with that Droid font.
Deja Vu Sans is a beautiful font, especially the Condensed version I
use as my UI font. It supports many languages and
Salane Ashcraft wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jimmy Angelakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please allow me to speak frankly:
I don't really see what all the fuss is about with that Droid font.
Would you make a section in the Intrepid Ibex Fonts- Art Team wiki
page then? Please provide
В 16:17 +0200 на 05.07.2008 (сб), Mario Viviani написа:
Hi there!
For sure Droid is the best font out there for Ubuntu. It is clean,
professional, so good-looking. If we can have it on Open Source, I
think Ubuntu have to use Droid Fonts as default font..
Cheers
Mario
Il giorno
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Anton Kerezov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that we should definitely use this fonts because they will make
the user feel the difference between old and new and because they save
more space on the screen and look more organised.
Ubuntu uses 10pt fonts by
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Conn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Anton Kerezov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that we should definitely use this fonts because they will make
the user feel the difference between old and new and because they save
more space on
Honestly, I don't understand why everyone loves small fonts. (Especially
designers, as it seems.)
When reading e.g. articles in firefox, the first I do is hit Ctrl+Num_Plus
several times to increase all font sizes.
I have good eyes, no glasses, but it's just much more comfortable to read
larger
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Klaus Bitto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Honestly, I don't understand why everyone loves small fonts. (Especially
designers, as it seems.)
I'm no designer, I'm a user. This has nothing to do with aesthetics. If you
have a monitor that offers high resolutions, or
In daily work, when I need to reach for an application's menu, I don't want
to concentrate too much, either.
Therefore, using smaller fonts for the sake of saving some disk space
might degrade the ubuntu user experience badly.
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with
Here's a detailed post about the Droid font.
http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-droid-isnt-answer.html
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Ooops! Flubbed the send button...
Then it went: No! Lib Sans is wrong! We should use a Humanist styled font!
Then back to: Droid! Droid is the one!
That was a full circle.
And again, I don't understand the why's.
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gotta
I tried both out, and Droid was much much better.
Salane
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ooops! Flubbed the send button...
Then it went: No! Lib Sans is wrong! We should use a Humanist styled font!
Then back to: Droid! Droid is the one!
That was a full
Oh good.
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Salane Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried both out, and Droid was much much better.
Salane
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ooops! Flubbed the send button...
Then it went: No! Lib Sans is wrong! We should
Its very good- I actually replaced all of my fonts in windows, mac, and
desktopbsd with them.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh good.
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Salane Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I tried both out, and Droid was much much
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