I would definitely say No! I believe that we should not only look on this from the technological or license point of view. Typography is an art.
The proposed font, Roboto, is from the typography point of view a terrible font. It is a Frankenstein. A pastige of different fonts, epochs and styles. Roboto is a blend of Arial, Helvetica, Myriad, Univers, FF Din, Ronnia and maybe more. In style, a mixture of Grotesque and Humanistic periods. Also technologically is not a good choice: where is the mono font? Maybe people do not like the fact that Lucida is commercial. I understand this. But to change to a artistically bad font just because of this is, I believe, wrong for a classic desktop such as CDE. I do not know how Christian Robertson (the designer) did such a bad job. Probably Google put on him too many restrictions. I can not explain this otherwise. More about Lucida. Lucida is one of the most complete families worldwide. It has Latin and Greek support (as Roboto also does) but also there are designs for other non latin languages like Hebrew, Arabic and others, that Roboto does not have at the moment. If we want to bundle a scalable font with CDE, let us think of more possibilities. Also Lucida is freely downloadable through java. Antonis. Στις 27/09/2012 05:06 πμ, ο/η Jon Trulson έγραψε: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I made some experiments about possible >> replacement for the default user interface >> font in CDE. >> >> I gave Roboto font a try (this is the new >> font for the Android phones), and it >> looks acceptable to me even without XFT >> and antialiasing. >> >> Here are the screenshots: >> >> http://saper.info/files/cdesktopenv/screenshot/roboto/roboto-dtlogin.png >> http://saper.info/files/cdesktopenv/screenshot/roboto/roboto-desktop.png >> >> I have used "Roboto Light" version for the user interface >> and regular Roboto for the dtgreet banner ("Welcome to radziecki"). >> >> Attached please find two configuration files for testing: >> >> 1. Xresources should go into /etc/dt/config/C/Xresources >> >> 2. fonts.alias should replace /usr/dt/config/xfonts/C/fonts.alias >> > I did't see any attachments :) > > I have not had a chance to look at these yet, work is keeping me > rather busy lately, but I'll try perhaps by the weekend. > > Other opinions are welcome :) > >> In my opinion it looks even better than TrueType Lucida Sans I was >> using before. >> >> After installing Roboto in your system please make sure >> it is included on the X server font path, for example >> in my system I have this in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf: >> >> Section "Files" >> ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" >> FontPath "/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fonts/" >> FontPath "/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/oblique-fonts/" >> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Droid/" >> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Roboto/" >> FontPath "built-ins" >> EndSection >> >> One advantage is that we could bundle this font with CDE >> (it is freely licensed!) and thus achieve consitent look >> across all platforms. Even users wouldn't need to change >> X server configration in any way. >> > True, but the ancient 100dpi fonts are free too :) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
