[rekonq] Fonts

Christian Mikovits gaelic at luchmhor.net
Wed May 26 10:58:41 CEST 2010


> Seriously? That's your argument? No mainstream Linux distribution even ships
> those fonts by default! Defaulting to fonts which are not even installed on
> regular people's KDE SC installation does not make any sense at all!
> On top of that, it's the f*cking web and not a print medium. The web is not
> designed to be pixel accurate. Just change the browser's window size and
> everything is off anyway, no matter which font you use.
> Additionally, if some idiot wannabe web designer wants pixel-perfect rendering
> for his text, he'll define the fonts and font sizes manually and not rely on
> browser defaults.

And gets wrecked if the font is not installed or I, as a user, deny to
change the font of webpages.

>
> Another counter-argument to yours: Usability.
> When I modify the font settings in System Settings, all of my fonts change. No
> matter if its GUI fonts or the fonts of text fields. Why on earth not in web
> pages?
> IMO (I hope Jonathan or another person who can program reads this and writes a
> patch) Rekonq should use by default the fonts defined in System Settings.
> Rekonq's Fonts prefpane should be kept intact, but receive a checkbox
> (unchecked by default) that says
> "Override System Settings' font configuration".

+1


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