[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#525510: fontforge: Pale cyan background not good for the eyes

Theppitak Karoonboonyanan thep at linux.thai.net
Sat Apr 25 04:13:24 UTC 2009


Package: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20090408-1
Severity: wishlist

The new fontforge is great, with neat anti-alias drawings.

However, my eyes appear to be a little color-blind after working with it
for a while. The pale cyan, yet almost white, background makes me see all
white backgrounds in other windows as pink.

While pale cyan background may be considered better for the eyes than the
bright white (I don't know the real reason behind the color choosing, just a
pure guess), I think it's better to use gray colors than eye-deceiving ones.

Or alternatively, it might be nice to be able to choose the background color.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=th_TH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=th_TH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fontforge depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.9-7             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfontforge1          0.0.20090408-1    runtime library for FontForge
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdraw4              0.0.20090408-1    runtime library for FontForge
ii  libgif4                4.1.6-6           library for GIF images (library)
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.35-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libspiro0              20071029-2        a library for curve design
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-11          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libuninameslist0       0.0.20080409-1    a library of Unicode annotation da
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1thep1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                2.1.13-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  python2.5              2.5.4-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

fontforge recommends no packages.

Versions of packages fontforge suggests:
pn  autotrace                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  fontforge-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  fontforge-extras              <none>     (no description available)
pn  potrace                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-fontforge              <none>     (no description available)

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