On Thursday 05 March 2009 11:30:24 Alexander Sack wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:36:07PM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Rick Spencer wrote on 05/03/09 17:44: > > >... > > > Could you please tell us exactly how you think this should work? What > > > is your preference for how the user should configure the options? > > >... > > > > If we think the setting recommended by fontconfig is likely good, it > > should be the radio button selected by default in the Font preferences. > > For example, if fontconfig recommends subpixel smoothing, "Subpixel > > smoothing" should be selected by default in the Font preferences. > > > > To cater for the case of someone who changed the setting days or weeks > > ago and isn't sure what to change it back to, the string > > " (recommended)" could follow the label for whichever option is > > recommended by fontconfig. For example, if fontconfig recommends Best > > shapes for your display, that option could appear as "Best shapes > > (recommended)". > > > > If fontconfig allows other useful options not available in the Font > > preferences (such as a minimum size for anti-aliasing text, or never > > anti-aliasing kanji), then they should be made available individually in > > a future release. A take-it-or-leave-it "Automatic" checkbox would not > > be an obvious way of setting those options either. > > Thanks for finally providing some input :). Anyway, I prefer > incremental changes that bring us forward instead of not doing > anything because we are blocked on ETOOMUCHTODO, or even > EITSNOTUNDERSTOOD. > > That said, nothing is perfect and there are always ways to do things > better, its just that you need a plan (and not just an idea) as in the > end someone has to do the groundwork and implement it. > > In the long run gnome should speak fontconfig, I agree, but for now my > approach seems reasonable, and honestly, its not really bad UI wise > either. Also we need to learn what particular parts of fontconfig > users would want to tweak. Offering everything would definitly lead to > UI bloat. For now, its just automatic, vs. manual and using a checkbox > for that isn't that bad - I like that and its a good start to build on > top. > > So my suggestion: we do it as I suggested (we can always tweak here and > there if its really a bad thing) now; then based on the experiences > and feedback we get out of this, we can discuss and improve and > finally come up with a perfect gnome UI for this, make a spec out of > it and implement it. > > - Alexander Alexander,
This sounds a little complex. Could I (re)suggest that we simply force everyone to default to subpixel smoothing in Jaunty? In other words, still allow GNOME to override fontconfig, but have force a different option? Cheers, Rick -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
