On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Mark Gaiser <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've (somewhat mildly) already stated that i do not like the oxygen fonts at > all! Just having those installed always screws up "something" on my system. > > So what i used to do was simply removing the oxygen fonts once an update had > the nerves to install it again. Which would be the frameworkintegration > package since it requires those fonts. > > However, recently frameworkintegration began to depend on the Noto fonts. > That single change made me search for about 2 days for possible reasons why > my chrome fonts where messed up [1]. Now that i know that it's > frameworkintegration, i really do blame you folks for depending on that! > Really, why depend on that font! And i don't care for reasons like "we can't > satisfy everyone". I can see no valid reason for Plasma - or rather breeze - > (that installs frameworkintegration) to depend on any font. What is wrong > with the fonts that the system has? Let the user decide, really! don't force > a font upon them, i'm serious about that! > > Fonts are a very delicate piece of software and are being used _everywhere_ > not just plasma. A choice of you folks to force a font upon the user will > influence how other applications look. That is not up to you to decide. You > cannot test all applications and see the impact the font might have so just > don't even go there and stay away from fonts! You can recommend a font, > that's fine. > > But in all seriousness, how can you even consider the noto font? Have you > even seen it on the site? It has massive spacing between lines [2]. It's > just not fit for everyday desktop usage in my opinion. Most definitely not > on non retina displays. It "might" be better suited for small high > resolution displays (phones, retina tablets, 4k displays in ~24 inch). > > I urge you, please reconsider the required font madness in > frameworkintegration! > > Best regards, > Mark > > [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1587249 > [2] https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-lgc
I don't get it. Can't you just change your fonts on System Settings? I'm flabbergasted. Aleix _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
