On 18 October 2013 13:00, Frank Shearar <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's why we call it a bikeshed: if you ask for opinions on something > deeply arcane (nuclear reactor plans, compilers, ...) you get no > reaction because the investment needed to actually comment properly is > just too high. But everyone knows how to build a bikeshed, so everyone > fights over the colour! > > Hell, yeah. Nevertheless it is important. As in real life, we all like when we are surrounded by beautiful and useful stuff. Sometimes beauty prevails usefulness, sometimes opposite, but it always two key factors which we consider when acquiring new stuff, and they almost never come alone. I think it comes from subconscious assumption that perfection has a physical form, which you can be able perceive with naked eye :) > frank > > On 18 October 2013 11:57, Nicolas Cellier > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, there are subjects for which every one can have a cheap and strong > > opinion. > > It's not like discussing the arcane of OldCompiler, gory Morphic layout > > details, or whatever.. > > Every one wanting to improve this area is now aware of skinny reactions > :) > > > > > > 2013/10/18 Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> > >> > >> 97 (..well…98) mails in one thread is quite a number. So fonts seems to > be > >> the biggest concern these days. That could say something about pharo ;) > >> > >> Norbert > >> Am 17.10.2013 um 19:58 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]>: > >> > >> > yes, that's because I failed to configure the new fonts and system > >> > fallbacks to the default font... to everything. > >> > anyway I switched back, while I see why font changes are not taken > into > >> > account. > >> > > >> > no log needed :) > >> > > >> > On Oct 17, 2013, at 7:53 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> > > >> >> Not sure if anyone noticed this previously, but I had a problem with > >> >> Monticello repositories not showing the usual convention to bold and > >> >> underline items to indicate which were in the image - and tracked > this down > >> >> to being introduced between builds #30469 and #30470. Coincidently > this is > >> >> where the default font seemed to change from DejaVu to Source Code > Pro. > >> >> Looks like the default is back to DejaVi in build #30497, so I'm not > sure > >> >> what you'd like to do about logging this as an issue. > >> >> > >> >> cheers -ben > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
