[openbeos] Re: Font sizes
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:59:57 GMT
lol Zenja
After 4 years of hard work, Haiku runs OpenTracker. First post about it
on the mailing list is a moan about font sensitivity!
Allow me to echo what I hope are most people's feelings here:
Wow! Awesome! Fantastic! etc etc
Those screenshots are a perfect way to silence the doubters in whether
Haiku would ever manage to acheive anything. It's a huge milestone. I
send my warmest congratulations to the team. You've just made my
weekend.
And zenja, if those were purported to be screenshots of the release
candidate of Haiku R1, on the evening before release, I would be right
there with you shouting about the tiniest niggles I had about the
professionalism of the OS. But we're still many months away from that
date, so I feel now is a time for congratulating the team; pushing them
very hard about little niggles will come later.
Keep the progress coming people - fantastic work.
Simon
> > I've posted some screenshots of Haiku AppServer running OpenTracker
> > on
> > a thread on ArsTechnica battlefront
> > (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=48409524&m=635003524731&r=596004524731#596004524731),
> > > > > and the overall impression is that font clipping seems
> > unprofessional.
> > Can I just urge developers to get the font size and calculate
> > the
> > clipping width/height before clipping views, instead of using hard
> > coded values. The user will always use a font with a different
> > size
> > compared to developers, so chopped text in windows will always
> > happen
> > UNLESS you enquire about font metrics before clipping. Even
> > yellowTab
> > Zeta doesn't do this for most distributed apps, and it looks very
> > non
> > professional. Dont dispair, almost every single OS is subject to
> > these clipping issues (including MacOSX and Windows)
> >
> > It's easy to fix this issue, and represents the difference between
> > a
> > polished app and a quickly assembled app. Take care with your own
> > apps, and Haiku apps will distinguish itself from the others by
> > oozing
> > with quality. Lets stop with this lazy practice now.
> >
> >
>
> Won't the font size be as in R5 (Deskbar, menus, popups and so on) ->
>
> smaller?
>
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