[mythtv] TODO list for 0.8

Jeremy Oddo joddo at apixels.net
Sat Feb 22 11:25:13 EST 2003


Isaac's right, I only have the one freetype font installed! :)

How should be address this?  I'm thinking that it's best to write themes
using fonts that EVERYONE should have.  Perhaps we can dig up a few free
fonts and include them in part of the setup routines?


Isaac Richards said:
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 12:07 pm, Nathan Ziarek wrote:
>> On the font size I did notice one thing:
>>
>> On the screenshot that Isaac create of the Iulius Theme
>> (http://www.ziarek.com/mythtv/images/icons/iulius_tv_screen.jpg)
>>
>> The fonts are larger, and because of that centered with the highlight.
>>
>> However, the one on Jerfu
>> (http://www.jerfu.com/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/MainThemes/iulius.jpg)
>> has smaller fonts that end up looking kind of silly when the highlight
>> is on.
>>
>> So, that leads me to believe that there is some sort of per-system
>> setting that is different on Isaac's than Jeremy's system. My question
>> is: can this be negated somehow? As a theme designer, you want it to
>> look the same on everyone's system, and that doesn't seem to be
>> happening now.
>
> I've got the microsoft truetype font set installed on my machine, he
> probably  doesn't.
>
> Isaac
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