Re: gnome standard font?

[Max Watson <redline pdq net>]

At 11:25 AM 2/2/98 -0500, <nuke@bayside.net> wrote:
>i think we (someone?) should work on a standard font for Gnome. think of
>it this way.. Mac has that ugly square boldish thing, OS/2 has the cool
>tall thin letters, and Win95 has the perfectly proportional "Microsoft
>Sans Serif". Gnome has.. whatever the server machine has installed, could
>be helvetica, who knows. it would be a good idea if we had maybe one or
>two fonts that would be used for everything in the widgets, including
>buttons, labels, lists, etc. this could get us even closer to a "standard
>desktop environment"
>
>just a thought..
>note that i have no idea how bitmapped fonts are drawn, as i've never seen
>any utilities that can do that. if anyone else knows, please enlighten me

Oh, no. Here we go again. One man's art is another man's garbage. For
example, every screen shot one sees of Enlightenment shows an IRC client
with that nexus font. Well, I am not E1EET enough for that K3WL font. And
besides, I run a TrueType font server. So if you want to make TrueType
Geneva the GNOME standard font, I am all for it. And don't forget, E is
about to go non-traditional with its font support, i.e. the bitmapped
fonts. All sarcasm aside, this is policy, and should be determined at the
user level. :)

M.Watson redline@pdq.net