Summary: | Font dialog should have per-language font settings (like mozilla) | ||
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Product: | [Applications] konqueror | Reporter: | Ken Deeter <ktdeeter> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Ken Deeter
2003-08-17 01:30:16 UTC
I just wanted to submit the same wish, and found it already well formulated. Note that even cjk users might want to have a language-specific setting, especially when they browse western (e.g. english) pages. Most CJK fonts contain quite ugly ASCII characters (usually monospaced, and certainly not comparable to the readability of Helvetica/Arial or Times). SuSE Linux e.g. contains nice TTFs for CJK (more than one per language, e.g. four chinese (two encodings, two shapes, which could be translated to "serif/non-serif")), so font rendering could be a lot better when choosing the *right* font. Note also that minimum and typical size of a font can depend on the language. A 7pt chinese font is basically unreadable, while a 7pt Arial is still good. So the suggestion is to have a language+encoding chooser (with "default" sets the fallback for all) for language/encoding-dependent settings in the font dialog. This sort of stuff cannot be done automatically (that's what Qt tries), since the right font for a specific CJK language is also a matter of taste. It almost seems to me that one day we are gonna need the same dialog for the global KDE font settings, even if QT does end up supporting unicode more properly. Perhaps KDE could get ahead of the game in this area.. as not even windows supports this kind of m17n-ized setting. This is actually a duplicate of bug 56338 . Transferring my votes, but the explanation here might be more useful. |