2014-04-22 21:30 GMT+02:00 stepharo <[email protected]>: > > On 22/4/14 14:19, Tudor Girba wrote: > > I do not see what this has to do with anything. > > Right now we are offering the possibility to not be able to load > FreeType fonts and this leads to buggy behavior when the user starts > playing with that toggle. > > > In fact this is buggy even without that. The system reports strike and > freetype fonts when we are in ft mode :( > > > Are you questionning about updateFontsAtImageStartup? The reason for not wanting to update fonts at image startup was to avoid loosing time at startup. http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2009-June/009358.html If this was a valuable setting at that time, what makes it not valuable now?
Or are you questionning about presence of FreeType fonts in FontChooser? I have FT on but updateFTAtStartup off, and for seeing the FT fonts I have to open the dialog, press update button, close the dialog, reopen, and only then I can see the FreeType fonts. Is that the bug you're after? > I fail to see why we need the option in the first place. All I am > saying is that we should remove the option from the settings browser and > simply have the freetype fonts enable all the time. This means that you > will still be able to load the bitmap fonts without problems just like > before. > > And it is our (as builders of Pharo) responsibilities to design. The > user can say if he likes it or not and in our case can even try to > contribute. But, this does not take the design responsibility from our > shoulders. > > Doru > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Sergi Reyner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 2014-04-22 8:21 GMT+01:00 Tudor Girba <[email protected]>: >> >> I am not arguing for dropping of bitmap fonts at all. I am only arguing >>> for removing the option of not having freetype. People on slow devices will >>> still be able to use the bitmap fonts. >>> >>> Is that wrong? >>> >> >> Well, look at it this way: who should be able to have the final word on >> what side of the speed/prettiness dichotomy Pharo should be: the user or >> the system? >> >> Cheers, >> Sergi >> > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > > >
