From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Simon Sasburg <simon.sasburg@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920170124.GS3099@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com>
Simon Sasburg <simon.sasburg@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I first saw git-gui on windows, I noticed it wasn't using ugly
> bold fonts for it's entire gui like it was in linux. I came up with
> the following patch to fix this there.
>
> And it worked, trange thing was, even git-gui without this patch
> applied was using normal fonts now. The patch didn't seem to make any
> difference for me anymore. So I chalked this up to weirdness of my
> system.
>
> Yesterday though a saw that a friends git-gui was showing the same
> problem with the entire gui being in bold text. And this patch fixed
> it.
>
> So its a bit weird that this patch seemed to have 'permanent' effects
> for me, even after it was reverted.... but on the other hand it's
> really trivial.
Yea, I can't explain that either. But this patch is really trivial
so I'm applying it anyway. Doesn't break anyone who was already
using a normal weight on their font and it should prevent others
from picking up bold everywhere. Thanks.
--
Shawn.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 17:01 UTC|newest]
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2007-09-18 22:33 [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes Simon Sasburg
2007-09-20 17:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
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