Re: TTF font usage

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:06:58 +0300
Luc Pionchon <luc.pionchon_at_welho.com> wrote:
> (sorry if this is of topic and probably not very clever, as I do not
> know too much about fonts)
No no, it isn't!

> Could it be a good thing actualy to provide default fonts with GPE
> developement framework? So that developers use that ones through
> transparent interface...

You are on the right path and that's almost exactly what I intended with
this posting.

> Requirement could be,
> 3 sizes (small, normal, large)
> with flavor (normal OR bold) AND (regular OR italic)
>
> then some kind of:
> GdkFont * gpe_font_load(gchar * gpe_font_name);
> with gpe_font_name =
> [small|normal|large]-[normal|bold]-[regular|italic]
>
> (or is it just using a gpe-gtkrc styles?)

Yep, that's gtkrc stuff.
But we should provide all the fonts that are needed within the
environment. At the moment many programs rely on the existance of M$ TTF
fonts like Verdana or the Monospace font. Those are nice, agreed, but
they are (c) M$ and thus cannot be distributed freely. I have found a
nice free TTF font on the web that can be used for example for mmenu.
You can download it from

        http://www.handhelds.org/~nils/baramond.zip

IMHO we could use this one to replace Verdana (better replacements
welcome!). I am still looking for a good monospaced font that could be
used e.g. for xkbd.

> luc
CU
  nils faerber

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