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

2 messages from 2007-09-18 to 2007-09-20. Participants: Simon Sasburg, Shawn O. Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9931

## Simon Sasburg, 2007-09-18 22:33

Subject: [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes
Message-ID: <981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56%40mail.gmail.com

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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.

 git-gui/git-gui.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
index f789e91..28d7c21 100755
--- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
@@ -1648,7 +1648,7 @@ proc apply_config {} {
 		set font [lindex $option 1]
 		if {[catch {
 			foreach {cn cv} $repo_config(gui.$name) {
-				font configure $font $cn $cv
+				font configure $font $cn $cv -weight normal
 			}
 			} err]} {
 			error_popup "Invalid font specified in gui.$name:\n\n$err"
-- 
1.5.3.1.21.g997f2-dirty

```

## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-09-20 17:01

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes
Message-ID: <20070920170124.GS3099@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070920170124.GS3099%40spearce.org
In-Reply-To: <981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com>

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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.

```