severity 547278 normal
retitle 547278 please fallback to fixed if courier is not available
thanks
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:43:40AM +0000, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > I suppose we should default to (or fallback to) a font like "fixed"
> > that is supposed to be on every X window system.
> I agree with this.
I've discussed the issue with some debian-x folks, and they agree too on
this: elvis should fallback to try "fixed" if courier is not available.
> But I raised the severity of this bug because it means elvis fails to
> work out of the box. If using a more standard font is too much
> trouble, could you Recommends: an appropriate package to make elvis
> work as expected?
However, both the bug severity and the Recommends are unwarranted in
this case. The severity is definitely too high, given that elvis comes
with several UI, and it is fully usable with the others out of the
box. Also, in any default X installation the required font is available:
I had to try hard removing tons of packages before being able to
reproduce this.
As suggested by other Debian X people, I'm hence downgrading the
severity to normal. Patches are welcome to fallback to fixed if courier
is not available.
Cheers.
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