[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
if you run sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, is the bitmap fonts option activated? -- 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
bitmap fonts option no, it wasn't. I've turned it on, and 'fixed' does now appear in the list of available fonts. (So I suppose the original problem could be considered user error. As it happens I didn't do the original install on this machine.) However, gnome-terminal still doesn't seem to be handling it correctly. This is a bitmap font, so it should only be offered at the right size (which happens to be 10 for 'fixed'), whereas gnome-terminal still allows you to set a size (and presumably scales the font) and gives no indication of what the natural size of the font is. Compare emacs, which gets this right -- the shift-right-click font menu just offers 'fixed' rather than any scaling options. I know that the fontconfig stuff is because it's really aimed at fully scalable truetype fonts for applications which want to display usually proportional text at the user's choice of font and size. But gnome- terminal isn't really that kind of application -- it's a terminal, and it needs a fixed-width font -- so using a standard font setup and font selection dialog is arguably the wrong thing. For example, the dialog lets you pick a non-fixed-width font (try 'Free Sans medium 10' and watch the display get messed up whenever there's an m) -- it should probably not display proportional fonts at all (or if it must, behind some kind of 'experts only' checkbox). So I suppose that's really what I'm complaining about -- gnome-terminal is trying to use a generic font selection system which is relatively poorly suited to a program displaying straightforward fixed-width text (so it lets you select totally unsuitable fonts and doesn't necessarily display fonts which are ideal for the terminal but which might be disabled in the system wide config because they don't make sense in the general case.) -- 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
Reopening since this bug was originally closed for the wrong reason (I think you'd have to try quite hard to manage an X server without the 'fixed' font) and there are still outstanding issues here. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: Rejected = Unconfirmed -- 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
Rewritting the font selector widget is not something we are likely to do any time soon according to the number of Ubuntu desktop bugs and the number of people working on it. Marking the feature request as rejected for Ubuntu, feel free to bring it upstream if you want ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged = Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected -- 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
In my opinion forwarding upstream problems upstream is one of the jobs of the distribution maintainer. Also I don't think that rejected is the right category for good idea if we had the time -- it should be enhancement or priority dogwash or some other thing that says yes this is a bug but not one we can or should fix immediately Or for that matter you could have a way to say forwarded upstream. But rejected is definitely the wrong thing because it means this is not a bug. Having said all that I don't care enough about this issue to do anything more so I guess it dies here. -- 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
as written previously Marking the feature request as rejected for Ubuntu. I consider forwarding feature request as a part of maintainers jobs too, but we have hundreds of desktop bugs backlog at the moment and very few people working on them, which means we have to take decisions. We can set the bug as confirmed and it'll probably still be like that in weeks with no new comment, the issue is that is that it makes harder to work on the list of bugs since it's in the middle of things that have a higher priority. Anyway, setting it as confirmed if you prefer, maybe in some weeks we will catch up enough to forward wishlists too ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: Rejected = Confirmed ** Summary changed: - 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list + the font selector should not allow to pick any font but fixed ones only -- the font selector should not allow to pick any font but fixed ones only https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 52476] Re: 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list
Yes, I can confirm, fixed does not appear there. Have you looked at fixed in xfontsel? All I see is a bunch of hiragana, and then some kanji. Maybe the only fixed-family font Ubuntu ships by default is Japanese? ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- 'fixed' font doesn't seem to appear in gnome-terminal's font list https://launchpad.net/bugs/52476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
