Re: [PATCH] qgit: Default the log window to wider than the file list and set monospaced font

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2007, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <200702081913.09952.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550702081106u1e02f371g3a91c7462ff5e442@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 2007, February 08 19:06, Marco Costalba wrote:

> I have applied and pushed all your patches. BTW you are referring to
> qgit4 at Pasky http://repo.or.cz/ site, not the stable qgit in
> kernel.org repo!

My apologies - that was the first one I found when I typed qgit4 repository.

> Hint: Regarding application 'fixed width' font please refer to
> TYPE_WRITER_FONT variable defined in common.h in your new patch, 
> this is where user choosen font is stored.

Excellent; I'll use that then. More patches coming soon. I hope the git list is the right place for these patches.

> P.S: Yes, I have noted this Qt::convertFromPlainText() misbehaviour,
> but I don't know if are the spaces that are not escaped correctly by
> the function or the QTextEdit rendering engine that eats the
> (escaped) spaces anyway.

I definitely think this is a bug in Qt; QTextBrowser will show the spaces in HTML mode if <pre> is used, so I don't think it's a fault in QTextBrowser.

> P.P.S: Give a try to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono as fixed width font,
> it's muuuuuch better then Monospace IMHO ;-)

No need to persuade me; that's what I already use. Monospace isn't a font on most systems - it's an alias to the default monospaced font - and for me it's aliased to Bitstream Mono :-)

It seems to be done by the following in /etc/fonts/

    <alias>
        <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
        <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
        <family>Courier</family>
        <family>Courier New</family>
        <family>Andale Mono</family>
        <family>Luxi Mono</family>
        <family>Cumberland AMT</family>
        <family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
        <family>NSimSun</family>
        <family>FreeMono</family>
        <default><family>monospace</family></default>
    </alias>

In case that helps you.

Andy

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