From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:01:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes Message-ID: <20070920170124.GS3099@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com> Simon Sasburg 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.