[5493] in testers
Re: We really should try a little harder with the default window
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jun 17 18:40:33 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Was there some reason why we defaulted to monospace 10 instead of
monospace 8? 8 seems readable to me, and consistent with what I
remember seeing and being able to do (at least under Linux) for 9.1.
-wdc
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:52, Bill Cattey wrote:
> I saw the thread on this go by in source reviewers or something,
> but I think we're gonna get a lot of negative feedback that people can't
> any longer put two terminal windows next to each other without overlap.
>
> The default font should indeed be fixed width, and readable, but it
> should also let there be two terminal windows side by side without
> overlap. At least it should on my 1200x1024 Linux box!
>
> (Insert generic diatribe on how every time I turn around I become more
> strongly convinced that GNOME authors forget more about usability every
> week.)
>
> -wdc
>
