From: Roland Schwingel <roland@onevision.com>
To: insight@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH] libgui: Adjust windows default fonts
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6B3D2F.10103@onevision.com> (raw)
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Hi...
libgui sets a bunch of default fonts which are giving the UI a quite
heavy/fat look on windows. Attached you find a small patch that uses
smaller fonts on windows. This results in roughly 30% more space in
source view and nicer looking panels. The changed fonts are at least
present since windows NT 4.0 - also since 1996 - so we can use them just
nicely.
Attached you find the small patch. Originally I wanted to attach 2 screenshots
but the mail got rejected by the mailinglist software. If someone is
interested I can send them seperately.
The patch is windows only!
Changelog:
2012-03-22 Roland Schwingel<roland.schwingel@onevision.com>
* library/looknfeel.tcl (standard_look_and_feel): Change default
fonts on windows. Default and status font is now Tahoma size 10.
Source font is now Lucida Console size 9.
Any comments? Is this ok?
Roland
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diff -ruN libgui_orig/library/looknfeel.tcl libgui/library/looknfeel.tcl
--- libgui_orig/library/looknfeel.tcl 2002-02-26 02:16:22.000000000 +0100
+++ libgui/library/looknfeel.tcl 2012-03-22 13:44:12.516985900 +0100
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
# The fixed font is guaranteed not to be proportional.
# The status font should be used in status bars and tooltips.
if {$tcl_platform(platform) == "windows"} then {
- define_font global/default -family windows-message
+ define_font global/default -family "Tahoma" -size 10
# FIXME: this isn't actually a bold font...
define_font global/bold -family windows-caption
- define_font global/fixed -family fixedsys
- define_font global/status -family windows-status
+ define_font global/fixed -family "Lucida Console" -size 9
+ define_font global/status -family "Tahoma" -size 10
# FIXME: we'd like this font to update automatically as well. But
# for now we can't.
array set actual [font actual windows-message]
next reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-22 14:55 Roland Schwingel [this message]
2012-03-29 23:25 ` Keith Seitz
2012-03-30 10:18 Roland Schwingel
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