Review Request 116633: Change default font settings to Oxygen font

[Frank Reininghaus]

> 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:
> > 
> > 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.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     There you go: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/artwork/oxygen-fonts/repository/revisions/a25fc6966140278ca7935e48102aeee990efbf10
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>     "fixes to 0.2 version only. Made numerals mono width"

Thanks, that's good to know. Maybe the bug report should be closed as FIXED then (I would do it myself, but I'm currently unable to test it and confirm that the user's problem has been solved).


- Frank


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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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