Arching Floorpians

ybjrepnfr

@npro oh golly! i also occasionally change mine, but admittedly not terribly often. i seem to have drifted, over the years, from wider to narrower fonts. for several years i was in love with lato, then one day somehow my sensibility completely changed & abruptly they felt far too wide, or, if you like...

bloat !

heehee, so i began using narrow or condensed families, & for another many years settled on ubuntu condensed [alternately despising myself, & laughing with myself at the irony]. then i changed to roboto condensed [& have tried hard to ignore which horrible company makes them, ugh]. that last change was more or less forced when, 6 or 12 months ago, i discovered that u/c & libreoffice writer were not playing nice together. frequently, but unpredictably, the two softwares would fight each other such that changing words from regular to italic or bold or underlined or strikethrough etc, or combinations, would be completely ignored... but as soon as via troubleshooting i changed fonts, all those formatting changes correctly appeared. silly!

no offence, but somehow your yakuake mono font causes me severe psychological distress! haha.

oh & i do congratulate you on finally solving the puzzle of how we can get tst into vivaldi

ybjrepnfr

@npro ugh! i cannot adequately tell you how much i dislike the whole aesthetic of gtk apps. they have so much excessive padding everywhere, so that every time their gui's are unnecessarily huge & imo wildly inefficient of desktop space. dunno, but they just really offend me.

as for

Bottles lets you run Windows software on Linux

hlehyaric

@ybjrepnfr Does it mean Bottles lets you run Windows on Linux?

hlehyaric

@ybjrepnfr said in Arching Floorpians:

ubuntu condensed
roboto condensed

Great!

ybjrepnfr

@hlehyaric ooh now look here you!

ybjrepnfr

@hlehyaric i know, i know, the shame, the hypocrisy! i do keep looking, now & then, to find a nice narrow/condensed font whose aesthetic pleases me & whose company is not nasty, but so far i still haven't. all the "ethical" ones, are pretty horrible, so far.

pls, let us never speak of this deep shame ever again

npro

@ybjrepnfr

you noticed the real window (as shown with Kwin) right? I haven't seen a more disgraceful window than this...
yeah " " ... I need to take a look at this for a friend that has recently converted to Elementary... 'cause telling him about WINE environments would surely scare him off lol. At least some convert to Elementary already... not like some others....

ybjrepnfr

@npro said in Arching Floorpians:

not like some others

yeah, these kind of peeps are just so terrible, innit! thank goodness we have none of them hereabouts...

npro

@ybjrepnfr said in Arching Floorpians:

from wider to narrower fonts
i began using narrow or condensed families
lato

this. Historically I never liked the "round" fonts, for example what buntus are using... Lato is decent but it doesn't differentiate much from some of the other popular fonts, imoDroid is a nice middleground, not too extremely condensed like Roboto (for some wierdos ) but still definitely in that direction

npro

@ybjrepnfr said in Arching Floorpians:

oh & i do congratulate you on finally solving the puzzle of how we can get tst into vivaldi

I know right? At least it's something

ybjrepnfr

@npro said in Arching Floorpians:

Roboto (for some wierdos )

i've never been so insulted!

since last time.

oh yeah, & the time before that.

then, ofc, there were all those other times...

a nice middleground

months ago i experimented with Noto Sans Condensed, & thought maybe it would be good for me, but soon i realised it was still a bit too "bloaty" for me.

ybjrepnfr

@npro oh dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn!

@jane-n

npro

@ybjrepnfr nah... not Noto, DejaVu, Cantarell etc... especially Noto is like using the Arial font in Winblows

ybjrepnfr

@npro yep! I actively dislike all the notos, but when i belatedly discovered they have a condensed variant, i thought i'd be open-minded & try it. but... naaaah.

npro

@ybjrepnfr too bad that it was just an illusion, I was just starting to feel better then this...

ybjrepnfr

@npro yes, i feel silly, coz for a few hours, i was allowing myself to hope...

npro

ybjrepnfr

yep, i feel your annoyance!

damn i keep forgetting about this bug.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439375

really hope that's fixed in qt6/plasma6.

[wayland here, ofc].

npro

@ybjrepnfr said in Arching Floorpians:

wayland

ybjrepnfr

@npro ya big meanie!