Re: [PATCH] gitk: use symbolic font names "sans" and "monospace" when available

> The following only concerns systems using X and the client-side font
> rendering framework from freedesktop.org.  Windows and Mac OS X are
> not affected.
> 
> Starting with version 8.5, Tk uses freetype and fontconfig by default
> to render fonts on platforms that support it.  Gitk currently defaults
> to the font Helvetica for the interface and Courier for diffs, and
> both unfortunately look rather bad on screen in the default
> configuration on many Linux distros with anti-aliasing and poor
> hinting.
> 
> It is better to default to "sans" and "monospace", which are mapped by
> fontconfig to some appropriate font of the sysadmin and user's
> choosing (typically Bitstream Vera Sans and Mono).  The result looks
> more sensible and it makes gitk feel like a well-behaved software
> citizen since its fonts match other native apps.
> 
> This patch does not change the appearance of gitk for users that have
> already run it, since gitk uses the remembered UI and diff font names
> from ~/.gitk
> 
> Requested-by: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>