Why is this buggy? Right now, the meaning of the checkbox is to allow the user to have FT in addition to bitmap fonts. That is why I say we should just drop the checkbox altogether and we have solved a source of problems. We can rethink the infrastructure for Pharo 4. Doru On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:30 PM, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
On 22/4/14 14:19, Tudor Girba wrote:
I do not see what this has to do with anything.
Right now we are offering the possibility to not be able to load FreeType fonts and this leads to buggy behavior when the user starts playing with that toggle.
In fact this is buggy even without that. The system reports strike and freetype fonts when we are in ft mode :(
I fail to see why we need the option in the first place. All I am saying is that we should remove the option from the settings browser and simply have the freetype fonts enable all the time. This means that you will still be able to load the bitmap fonts without problems just like before.
And it is our (as builders of Pharo) responsibilities to design. The user can say if he likes it or not and in our case can even try to contribute. But, this does not take the design responsibility from our shoulders.
Doru
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Sergi Reyner <sergi.reyner@gmail.com>wrote:
2014-04-22 8:21 GMT+01:00 Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com>:
I am not arguing for dropping of bitmap fonts at all. I am only arguing
for removing the option of not having freetype. People on slow devices will still be able to use the bitmap fonts.
Is that wrong?
Well, look at it this way: who should be able to have the final word on what side of the speed/prettiness dichotomy Pharo should be: the user or the system?
Cheers, Sergi
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