Review Request 116633: Change default font settings to Oxygen font

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On March 7, 2014, 3:23 p.m., Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> > We have had a complaint from a Dolphin user who uses the Oxygen font some time ago because it uses different widths for the digits 0-9, which makes the "Date" column in file managers/dialogs rather hard to read:
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> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314140
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> > http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=76816
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> > According to Christoph, other fonts use the same width for all ten digits to prevent this effect.
> > 
> > I can't say much about this issue myself because I'm not familiar with font design, but maybe this problem should be taken into account.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     I cannot find anymore where I read it but iirc version 0.4 of Oxygen Fonts fixed exactly that and uses fixed-width numerals.

There you go: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/artwork/oxygen-fonts/repository/revisions/a25fc6966140278ca7935e48102aeee990efbf10

"fixes to 0.2 version only. Made numerals mono width"


- Kai Uwe


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On March 6, 2014, 4:36 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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> (Updated March 6, 2014, 4:36 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Àlex Fiestas.
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> Repository: frameworkintegration
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> Description
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> Change default font settings to Oxygen font
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> Depend on kde:oxygen-fonts being installed. oxygen-fonts installs a file called OxygenFontConfig.cmake, which is used for checking the dependency is available.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt e249554 
>   src/platformtheme/kfontsettingsdata.cpp 62990ce 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116633/diff/
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> Testing
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> Started kate without a kdeglobals file being present, fonts are picked up correctly.
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian Kügler
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