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

["Sandro Martini (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sandro Martini commented on PIVOT-958:
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Some discussions even here: 
http://apache-pivot-users.399431.n3.nabble.com/Changes-to-skin-colors-etc-in-Pivot-2-1-0-td4022993.html


> 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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