[Pkg-mc-devel] MC 4.8.1-3

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:36:21 Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > My term app. uses "DejaVu Sans Mono" which works just as expected.
> 
> How can I check / enforce this?  I'm using the following string
> in my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm:
> 
> xterm*font: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
> 
> If this could be enhanced I would like to know this.  If it turns out
> that the user needs to adjust the terminal configuration a bit than we
> should mention this inside the according README which describes the
> skins.

I'm using Konsole where font is easy to set. But IMHO it would be too much 
troubles to document settings for terminal applications.

I doubt if we need to provide anything more than alternative skins - if for 
whatever reason a particular skin doesn't look good (due to settings or user's 
visual preferences) there are others to try.

I'm not too concerned about this as long as default skin is not affected.


> > Your reply inspired me to introduce thin variants of new skins - you can
> > find 'em in repository. What do you think?
> 
> Sounds reasonable and I actually intended to suggest this.  But as I
> said above we should probably accompany this with hints how to make
> soure the original ones will work.  I did not dived very deeply into X
> configuration issues - just made sure that if I fire up a xterm via key
> bindings it will occupy exactly one quarter of my screen and is using a
> perfectly readable font.  I'd like to know how to enhance this to get
> a font which profits from advanced mc features.
> 

I'm not sure about hints regarding font setting in terminal applications 
because it feels a bit out of scope, but certainly issue is worth mentioning 
in README.Debian, which I just updated with few comments.

All the best,
Dmitry.