On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > 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.
I agree with this. Feature enhancements that don't necessarily get in the way of the classic CDE experience are ok, such as providing TrueType support so that it's there if you want to use it, or supporting freedesktop.org style system tray applets. Things like that can be turned off by default. But please...don't make it so a first-time user sees something when they install and login for the first time that doesn't even look like CDE! Don't change the default font...or if you do, at least change it to something that looks like the original (perhaps with a more free license). -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
