Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice default UI font is StarOffice Andale Sans UI ?

Anyone agree that we should change the LibreOffice default UI font list?

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Samphan Raruenrom <samphan@osdev.co.th>wrote:

> Look at
> http://opengrok.go-oo.org./xref/libs-core/officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu#129
>
> > <prop oor:name="UI_SANS" oor:type="xs:string" oor:op="replace">
> >   <value>Andale Sans UI;Arial Unicode MS;Lucida Sans Unicode;Tahoma;DejaVu
> > Sans;Albany AMT;Albany;Arial;Nimbus Sans L;Interface
> > User;WarpSans;Geneva;Tahoma;MS Sans
> > Serif;Helv;Dialog;Lucida;Helvetica;Charcoal;Chicago;Helmet;Interface
> > System;Sans Serif</value>
> > </prop>
>
> You can see that the first-priority default UI font of every LibreOffice
> applications are, "Andale Sans UI". However, "Andale Sans UI" is not
> available on all system. I guess "Andale Sans UI" will be installed with
> StarOffice. So it's not logical to be used as the first-priority default UI
> font.
>
> Look at
> http://opengrok.go-oo.org./xref/libs-gui/vcl/source/window/window.cxx#287
>
> > if ( ! aUserInterfaceFont.Len() )
> > {
> >     String aFallbackFont (RTL_CONSTASCII_USTRINGPARAM( "Andale Sans UI"
> > ));
> >     if ( mpWindowImpl->mpFrameData->mpFontList->FindFontFamily(
> > aFallbackFont ) )
> >     aUserInterfaceFont = aFallbackFont;
> > }
>
> The font also is used as the last-resort fallback font. I suggest we
> reconsider the use of this font and create a better font list that works
> more cross-platform and cross-locale.
>
> As a side-effect, this would help us fix a Thai locale-sensitive bug :
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33090
>
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> _/|\_ Samphan Raruenrom. Open Source Development Co., Ltd.
> Tel: +66 38 311816, Fax: +66 38 773128, http://www.osdev.co.th/



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Tel: +66 38 311816, Fax: +66 38 773128, http://www.osdev.co.th/