Setup.exe: Font issue

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 23 21:06:00 GMT 2003


Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> 
> Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> writes:
> 
>>I'm still a little leery, as the already pointed out limitations -
>>are there machines with vector instead of bitmaps Dlg fonts.
> 
> 
> As I already mentioned before, that is not the issue at all.  It's
> nice for debugging to wonder if the actual effects are causes by
> something like this.  But neither the final analysis nor the solution
> is affected by it.

I must have missed something along the way - sorry.


>>Does it interact (worsely) with large/small font settings. And so
>>on.
> 
> 
> The exact point of the patch is that it interacts *better* than the
> current choice.

It intereacts better _for the limited testing_ it has had. We have a 
user base of a few thousand, the error has been reported by, oh, 10 
users, and it's been tested on even less machines (AFAIK).

Rob



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