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Bug 106470 - gedit should allow use of either default font, default monospaced font, or custom font
gedit should allow use of either default font, default monospaced font, or cu...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-18 23:52 UTC by Rodd Clarkson
Modified: 2007-01-02 17:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Rodd Clarkson 2003-02-18 23:52:53 UTC 
Currently gedit allows users to select between the default theme font or a
custom font.

It would be beneficial to have it offer a third choice: default monospaced
theme font.  Often a monospaced font is preferencial when developing code
as it improves layout of code.  This would simplify the selection of the
systems monospaced font without adding undue confusion to the Preferences.

Also, but related, it might be worth considering a change of wording in the
preferences to better reflect the wording used in the global Font
Preferences dialog.  As such "Use default theme font" should be changed to
"Use Gnome Application Font" and if added "Use Gnome Terminal Font"[1].



[1] It might actually be worth rewording "Terminal Font" in the Font
Preferences to "Monospaced Font" but this would involve changes outside
gedit.  Tell me if you think this makes sense and I'll file a bug against
the appropriate package.
Comment 1 Evert Verhellen 2003-05-07 20:08:17 UTC 
Implementing the above prososal would also resolve bug 101753, at
least I think so.
Comment 2 Rodd Clarkson 2004-02-23 00:44:16 UTC 
It any work being done on this.  I've noticed a lot of nice clean-ups
in the Preferences, but I still feel that given that this would be a
useful enhancement.

I'm just following upo because it's been 12 months since I posted this
initially.
Comment 3 Paolo Borelli 2004-02-23 09:04:36 UTC 
For what is worth I don't have a strong opinion on this issue, anyway
we are in string & UI freeze for 2.6.
Comment 4 Rodd Clarkson 2004-02-25 00:16:35 UTC 
moved to GNOMEVER2.7 as I think it's a worthwhile option.
Comment 5 Henrique Rodrigues 2005-03-28 21:51:06 UTC 
This should definately be fixed in GNOME 2.11. It's been here for so long and
also fixes bug 101753
Comment 6 Alexander van Loon 2006-05-05 21:44:48 UTC 
I agree, I was just thinking about this aspect of gedit as well, when I searched Bugzilla I found this bug report, and #101753

It doesn't make sense to have the default font in gedit to be Monospace. There are Font Preferences, it would be a good idea if gedit would conform to them. 

There's a small difference in my opinion though. There should be two options for the font. The default option should be to use the font which is set to be the default fixed width font in the Font Preferences. Then there should be an option to choose a custom font.

BTW, this bug is three years old and the last comment here is a year old. #101753 is three years old as well. I can't imagine that this should take so much time to change?
Comment 7 Steve Frécinaux 2007-01-02 17:57:53 UTC 
bug 101753 has been fixed. Closing this one as WONTFIX since the original goal was to allow the use of the default monospaced font, and that using a variable width font doesn't make much sense in a text editor...