From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent using bold text in entire gui for some fonts sometimes Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20070920170124.GS3099@spearce.org> References: <981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Sasburg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 20 19:01:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYPPE-0000um-F5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:01:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753235AbXITRB3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753311AbXITRB3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:29 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:49198 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753063AbXITRB2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:28 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IYPOx-0006il-RC; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:20 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 16A3120FBAE; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:25 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <981e6de60709181533o24ef0e45w7925070b5e78ef56@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.