https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411524
Bug ID: 411524
Summary: A suggestion to change font style listing to default
to "regular" rather than "bold" or "italic", upon
choosing a new font
Product: konsole
Version: 19.08.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: font
Assignee: konsole-de...@kde.org
Reporter: sheve...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
This is not a "bug report", per se, but a slight feature
request; or, more accurately, a request to change a current
default behaviour.
Situation:
You can pick another font in KDE Konsole. I am using
19.08.01, compiled from source on linux. It works fine.
I typically use the font called "Hack". When I quickly
select this font, the drop-down listing for "Font Style"
has "italic" listed first, then "Bold Italic", then
"Bold", and then "Regular".
So I tend to not read what is written, assuming that
this refers to regular, so I select it. But instead I
wanted to pick "regular" instead.
I thus have two ALTERNATIVE suggestions to make:
- Either sort that list alphabetically, so that "bold
italic" and "bold" comes before "italic", then "regular".
The same would apply for "Fonts". I am not sure why it
is not sorted alphabetically.
- Or, alternatively, my preference, would be to list
there, at the least at font styles, regular as the
most commonly used setting, and default it to the top
listing. I may be wrong but I think this used to be
an old default, since I tend to re-use my old habits.
But I am not 100% certain.
Either way I think most users will prefer e. g. regular
over italic; and also regular over bold. Bold is not
that bad, but italic is ... quite annoying, IMO. I
think only very few users will prefer italic over
regular, so it may be better to have regular valued
over bold or italic.
At any rate I believe this may require a bit discussion
to reason in favour of the current default, or any
change in general, so that we can avoid ad-hoc changes
here. Something should be the default, so perhaps the
current behaviour also has some reasoning, although
I am not sure which one it would be.
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