[konsole] [Bug 411524] New: A suggestion to change font style listing to default to "regular" rather than "bold" or "italic", upon choosing a new font

[shevegen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411524

            Bug ID: 411524
           Summary: A suggestion to change font style listing to default
                    to "regular" rather than "bold" or "italic", upon
                    choosing a new font
           Product: konsole
           Version: 19.08.0
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: font
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: shevegen at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

This is not a "bug report", per se, but a slight feature
request; or, more accurately, a request to change a current
default behaviour.

Situation:

You can pick another font in KDE Konsole. I am using
19.08.01, compiled from source on linux. It works fine.

I typically use the font called "Hack". When I quickly
select this font, the drop-down listing for "Font Style"
has "italic" listed first, then "Bold Italic", then
"Bold", and then "Regular".

So I tend to not read what is written, assuming that
this refers to regular, so I select it. But instead I
wanted to pick "regular" instead.

I thus have two ALTERNATIVE suggestions to make:

- Either sort that list alphabetically, so that "bold
italic" and "bold" comes before "italic", then "regular".

The same would apply for "Fonts". I am not sure why it
is not sorted alphabetically. 

- Or, alternatively, my preference, would be to list 
there, at the least at font styles, regular as the
most commonly used setting, and default it to the top
listing. I may be wrong but I think this used to be
an old default, since I tend to re-use my old habits.
But I am not 100% certain.

Either way I think most users will prefer e. g. regular
over italic; and also regular over bold. Bold is not
that bad, but italic is ... quite annoying, IMO. I
think only very few users will prefer italic over
regular, so it may be better to have regular valued
over bold or italic.

At any rate I believe this may require a bit discussion
to reason in favour of the current default, or any
change in general, so that we can avoid ad-hoc changes
here. Something should be the default, so perhaps the
current behaviour also has some reasoning, although
I am not sure which one it would be.

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