Linux and fonts

[Ben Scott]

  Heh.  While I generally agree, I can't help but comment on this:

On 10/30/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> And please, no replies of the form, "Well, under (GNOME, KDE, other DTEs)
> you just pull up some widget and select your font.  That is nothing
> but a bandaid and some duct tape masking the problem. Bring up an
> xterm (a *REAL* xterm, not a kterm, not gnome-terminal, etc.) and try
> changing the font to something somewhat sanely named like "Times Roman".

  So, we want the software to have more intelligence regarding fonts,
but we're not allowed to change the software at all.

  Hmmm.  If you don't change anything, than nothing will change.  I
find this obvious, but I've noticed that there are plenty of people
who seem to expect the opposite.

  Oh, and I also want to comment on another, unrelated meta-issue:

> And don't get me started on things like Firefox, which come with a
> completely brain-dead default configuration, and almost no way to
> easily change that behavior.

  Of course, another problem is that what you or I regard as
"completely brain-dead" someone else might think is "the only
reasonable choice".

-- Ben