[jira] [Created] (PIVOT-958) Change default theme font to one of the Java "logical" fonts

["Roger Whitcomb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Roger Whitcomb created PIVOT-958:
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             Summary: Change default theme font to one of the Java "logical" fonts
                 Key: PIVOT-958
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-958
             Project: Pivot
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: wtk-terra
    Affects Versions: 2.0.4
         Environment: WIndows XP, Windows 7, OSX Mavericks, Linux RedHat
            Reporter: Roger Whitcomb
            Assignee: Roger Whitcomb
             Fix For: 2.1, 2.0.5


The current default Terra Theme font is "Verdana 11".  While this is a nice-looking font, it is not available (by default) on platforms other than Windows, and it does not support a wide range of the Unicode character set (typically not much outside the Latin-1 range).  This is a problem for applications needing to routinely handle Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. characters in the GUI.

The proposal would be to change the default theme font to either "DIALOG 12" or maybe "SANS_SERIF 12" in order to take advantage of the increased character set coverage in these "logical" fonts.

Since this is a big visual change, it is not clear if it should go into 2.0.5 or not.



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