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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by sebas on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @03:21

> Please note this is NOT a troll or anything. I genuinely would like KDE to succeed, but for me at the moment (indeed ever since I started using linux) the fonts issue is still a long way from being solved.

The Dot is quite a poor choice for a medium for 'technical feedback that is not trolling' (not that trolling has its place there ...). The best thing you can probably do with your feedback is taking it to a mailinglist (such as kde-devel) and find out why it is that way, and what you can do to change it.

BTW, font rendering on my systems, and on screenshots I see is just fine, I cannot see the issues you're complaining about, so it's at least very subjective.

For this commit-digest it's way offtopic (it's not about some recent change, is it?). Another reason to choose a mailinglist ...

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Gogs on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @03:26

I would disagree. This thread is about progress being made in KDE aka Commit Digest. I would say that poor fonts don't represent progress, therefore it would be legitimate to point that out on this thread.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Matt Williams on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @03:44

But you can't seriously expect all the KDE developers to follow all the threads on all the Dot articles, especially given the signal:noise ratio. Of course, you're free to point it out here but it's unlikely that anything productive will come of it. The mailing list is the correct place to report issues such as this and Bugzila is the place for most other wishlist/bug reports.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Gogs on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @04:07

No I certainly do not, but having being reading the Commit Digest announcements for a while they do certainly appear to attract their fair share of devs...

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Bobby on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @04:45

That's true, I have seen even big shots like Aseigo addressing problems on the dot quite a few times even though they might have been posted on Bugzilla or the mailing list.
I have also posted a few problems/bugs (haven't got a Bugzilla account yet) here which have been been dealt with, so yes they (the devs) are on the alert even on the dot ;)

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by sebas on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @05:55

That doesn't make it a more suitable medium for doing so. In fact, posting to the right mailinglist helps the developers keeping track of it (so chances increase it gets addressed), increases chances that the right developer even reads it, and it helps developers a great deal by respecting their workflow.

So while sometimes things get picked up from the Dot, it's by no means a preferred, nor suitable, medium to report bugs.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Bobby on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @05:59

I am aware of that sebas and that's why I am going to get registered on Bugzilla today. Of course I don't have a bug right now but I am sure that one will come ;)

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by elsewhere on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @19:18

> I would disagree. This thread is about progress being made in KDE aka Commit Digest. I would say that poor fonts don't represent progress, therefore it would be legitimate to point that out on this thread.

You can't hold the devs accountable for something that is the responsibility of the distros. You may as well complain that KDE doesn't speed up package management. KDE does what it rightly should, and relies on the defaults set in the environment, unless the packagers have altered those defaults. If those don't work well, your criticism is misdirected.

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