| 2009-06-19 20:32:13 |
Tory Patnoe |
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After seeing a friends terminal program running on Mac OS X. I noticed how clean his terminal windows were. He bragged that Apple spends a lot of money on fonts. Naturally I stated that Ubuntu could do that _and_ chew gum at the same time. So off I was to make my terminals as nice looking as his.
After doing the following:
Terminal->Edit->Profiles->Edit->General Tab->Font
Up poped the font selector.
The font selector was very cumbersome to use.
1) No way to view multiple fonts at the same time to get a nice preview. I had to select each font one by one and view in the preview window.
2) No way so view fonts by a name search (like a search with the string 'mono' or 'DejaVu')
3) No way to view _only_ monospaced fonts
4) No way to view fonts by region (western, asian, etc)
After wading through all the fonts one by one I had what I wanted. Then I wanted to change all the fonts as well.
System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
Bang! I had to go through the cumbersome selection process for each one of Application font, Document font, Desktop font, Window title font, Fixed width font.
In the end I settled upon the DejaVu famility of fonts just changing sizes etc.
The font selector needs to be easier to use. Items #1, #2 and #3 above are a MUST.
I'd even be willing to help out. |
After seeing a friends terminal program running on Mac OS X. I noticed how clean his terminal windows were. He bragged that Apple spends a lot of money on fonts. Naturally I stated that Ubuntu could do that _and_ chew gum at the same time. So off I was to make my terminals as nice looking as his.
After doing the following:
Terminal->Edit->Profiles->Edit->General Tab->Font
Up poped the font selector.
The font selector was very cumbersome to use.
1) No way to view multiple fonts at the same time to get a nice preview. I had to select each font one by one and view in the preview window.
2) No way so view fonts by a name filter (like a filter with the string 'mono' or 'DejaVu'). The filter could even be expanded to something like "sans style:book" which would show me names which match sans and have a book style.
3) No way to view _only_ monospaced fonts
4) No way to view fonts by region (western, asian, etc)
After wading through all the fonts one by one I had what I wanted. Then I wanted to change all the fonts as well.
System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
Bang! I had to go through the cumbersome selection process for each one of Application font, Document font, Desktop font, Window title font, Fixed width font.
In the end I settled upon the DejaVu famility of fonts just changing sizes etc.
The font selector needs to be easier to use. Items #1, #2 and #3 above are a MUST.
I'm willing to help out. Just got to get my system setup and learn a little about the gnome libraries.
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