https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387709
--- Comment #3 from Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> --- > Then what's your opinion about having a option for whether to use bold font > or not. I have vaguely proposed removing it from gnome-terminal at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762247#c1 (I wanted to link this bugreport previously, I mistakenly linked a duplicate of this), but I don't have a firm opinion about it. I tend to believe that users should configure their apps not to ask to output bold text in that case. Many terminal emulators traditionally have an option to disable bold, and/or an option for a "bold color" which is being used when the default foreground color is made bold. The latter one only makes sense in spirit of the legacy "bold is bright" model; if for the standard 8 palette colors one should be able to specify their bold ahemm bright counterpart, they should probably be able to specify one for the default foreground color too (which is not necessarily the white or black one of the palette). As for entirely disabling bold: The 256-color (let alone truecolor) extension started to clarify that for the ambiguous "\e[1m" the correct meaning should be bold and not bright, since the color has a dedicated escape sequence of its own. (And while at it, "\e[2m" aka faint/dim is also a truly stupid one. A thinner font stroke could make sense instead, although it's not a standard typesetting practice, and its usefulness is highly questionable.) > Maybe some users just don't like the bold fonts and want to use normal font > weight > for all cases. If we're talking about users simply not liking it, then what about users who don't like italic, users who don't like underlined text, users who don't like certain colors (or combinations thereof) etc.?? Some terminal emulators provide some options for these, e.g. some can enforce a minimum contrast between the foreground and background color of each cell (by disobeying even explilcit RGB foreground colors if it's too close to the background), and I guess every emulator that supports blinking allows to disable it. And what about users using this font in other apps too where they just as much don't like its bold counterpart?? Maybe they should configure their system globally not to use it (e.g. for GNOME this can probably be done at fontconfig level; not sure about KDE). Pushing even further, I'm wondering: why would someone get rid of this useful way of emphasizing text, rather than picking a different font whose bold variant they also like?? That being said, if a terminal emulator lets you disable bold (or maybe choose a different font for bold), so be it. But then at the very least it should probably offer this for italic too. I just personally don't see too much point in these options and I'm not convinced the terminal emulator is the right place for such hacks. Anyway, your original request and my response to that was more of a technical one, this one is more opinion-based, so Konsole developers' opinion should matter more, not mine. :-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
