Be careful on licensing when creating bitmaps (StrikeFonts) or fonts and then redistributing. One nice thing about the Vera fonts is that they are open source.
Many countries have weird rules about fonts. On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Norbert Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 Very good point. I agree on all of them. > > Is it possible to choose any ttf font and make a NiceFont out > of it? I don't know the real name but the package on universe > is called this way. > > Or do you think we should make the trutetype plugin mandatory? > > Norbert > > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:22 +0200, Adrian Lienhard wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to get your opinion about how we could improve the GUI. I >> believe that even a few small changes will make a significant >> difference, especially for new people that come to Pharo. Just the >> cleaned up world menu is such a relief... >> >> Here a three suggestions: >> >> Better fonts >> ---------------- >> I think the current code font is not a good one and it is too small >> (for today's screen resolutions). I like for example the font used in >> TextMate, which is Monaco 12, a monotype font. The page >> http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ >> gives some samples for good code fonts. I've tried out the other >> fonts in the Pharo image like the BitstreamVeraSansMono but they are >> all very blurry. Just not good enough. I'm not a font expert, so I >> don't know what the options for a better font are. >> >> Better menus >> ------------------------------- >> Current problems: >> - bad organization menus only work when you have learned where >> something is located >> - duplicated entries e.g., Appearance is both in the top level world >> menu and in the submenu Help >> - useless entries e.g., set font, set style etc. in the context >> menu >> are useless since code is never styled >> - defective entries: e.g., "Make project link" in the context menu >> does not work >> >> Larger windows >> ------------------------------- >> The default size of windows is usually too small. Often, after opening >> a window I have to resize it. For example the hierarchy browser shows >> only the 5 first classes. >> >> >> Any other ideas what could be improved in the short term? I'm looking >> for stuff that we can do now without having to rewrite the whole >> system... >> >> Cheers, >> Adrian >> >> ___________________ >> http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
