[vlc-devel] commit: freetype: use a sane default font on OS X, so we don' t have to add ugly hacks to keep it working ( Felix Paul K??hne )

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Am 16.09.2009 um 09:16 schrieb jpd at videolan.org:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:10:12AM +0200, git version control wrote:
>> vlc | branch: 1.0-bugfix | Felix Paul K??hne <fkuehne at videolan.org>  
>> | [...]
>>
>> freetype: use a sane default font on OS X, so we don't have to add
>> ugly hacks to keep it working
>>
>> Arial Black is available on all Mac OS X installations current VLC
>> releases can run on and is the default for the 'Quartztext' renderer
>> anyway.
>
> Of all the fonts available on macs you choose arial. Whoever chose  
> that
> default was not a designer type.

You're welcome to suggest a different font. It needs to be installed  
in /System/Library/Fonts or /Library/Fonts by default and needs to  
include support for most non-ASCII locales.

IMO, Arial Black is still better than Lucida Grande...


Best regards,


Felix