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Bug 791969 - Font chooser: show monospace only
Font chooser: show monospace only
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: Profiles
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-26 23:07 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2017-12-27 22:33 UTC
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Description Egmont Koblinger 2017-12-26 23:07:06 UTC 
There are quite a few forum posts on the web asking why a certain (non-monospace) font in gnome-terminal looks ugly and how to fix that.

I guess we could limit the list we offer to our users to monospace fonts only. (Expert users could still set any font via dconf, in the unlikely case that they'd want that.)

We'd need to combine gtk_font_chooser_set_filter_func() with pango_font_family_is_monospace().
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2017-12-27 22:28:10 UTC 
Fixed the font chooser on master. A non-monospace font might still find its way in by being set directly via dconf, but then the user gets what they deserve :-)
Comment 2 Egmont Koblinger 2017-12-27 22:33:16 UTC 
Thanks! :)