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Re: [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Sep 20, 2007, 17:01 UTC
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<20070920170124.GS3099@spearce.org>
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<981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com>
Simon Sasburg <simon.sasburg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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  1. Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimesSimon Sasburg, Sep 18, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceSep 20, 2007

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