Re: [PATCH] Make list view update when defaults change

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 13:34, dave bordoley wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the accessibility guys would appreciate it if we used
> the system default font, since i'm pretty sure it's a legal requirement.
> I'm going to cc them to this.

Accessibility was my motivation for b).  However, I really don't see why
you think such arguments apply to the list view but not the icon view.

> In addition the current font capplet has a preference for the file
> manager font, we could use that for the icon view. 
> 
> I think that both the desktop and icon view should share the same font
> regardless. It would be strange to be able to change the icon font for
> the desktop but not for the file manager windows.

I suppose so.  I guess I only suggested a) because Alex said he wanted
to configure the preference for the desktop and you said you wanted to
remove the preference for the list view.  Meanwhile I really don't see
any reason for removing the list view preference if we are going to keep
the icon view preference (if it is handy for the icon view then surely
it is also a handy for the list view).

> dave
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 13:13, David Emory Watson wrote:
> > 
> > The only preferences which this does not handle are the font and
> > font_size preferences.  We need to decide if we want to keep these.  I
> > think we should either a) keep them for both the icon view and the list
> > view or b) eliminate them but create an additional font preference for
> > the desktop only.  Also, I already have a partial implementation of the
> > font preferences for the list view.  Once we decide I can polish it up
> > or throw it out...
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> > 
>