[Konsole-devel] [Bug 131770] no bold is displayed in konsole

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2006-09-15 02:45 -------
> So, to clarify,
> 1. /trunk/ - bold is fixed

Well, when I said 'fixed', I mean that in trunk text with the bold attribute is always rendered as bold - no matter what the schema says.  This will ultimately have to change.      

As Lars explained to me, this is both incorrect and not ideal because:

- Personal preference (Not everyone likes the look of bold text)
- Bold text does not look good in some schemas in particular (eg. midnight commander, Linux console)


The existing system (assuming the bugs were fixed) is very flexible,  but has its own problems.  In short - it is complicated from an end-user's perspective and Konsole does not render text as expected 'out of the box'.

- The default Konsole scheme gives unexpected results.  I had no idea until Lars told me that I could get bold to work as expected by switching to the Xterm schema.
- It isn't obvious that the handling of bold text is controlled by the schema, and there is no way to quickly set the handling of bold text for all colours in a schema.

My thoughts on how to resolve this issue, looking at it from an end-user's perspective:

- Set the default Konsole schema to one which is similar to xterm and gnome-terminal's default (perhaps with some slight colour tweaks eg. make the 'intensive green' less horribly bright).  Also look to see if there is anything else we can do to make Konsole's text look nicer out of the box.  eg.  Make sure that we use the proper Bold version of the font where available for rendering text. 

- Make it more obvious in the UI that bold text is handled by the schema, and provide an easier way to set the handling of bold text for a particular schema.  Checking / unchecking the 'bold' box for every colour in the palette is a painful process. 

A preview widget is somewhere on my to-do list for the future, and this would help to clarify the connection of bold text handling and schemas.