[vdr] Re: font-patch against AIO0804

[Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>]

Carsten Koch wrote:

> Alessio, Gerald, Klaus, what do you say?
> Should I just forget about the whole thing ("never touch a running system")?

running systems are boring.

You discovered what I was suspecting but I had no time to test. I think 
however that changing the setup preferences from lines to pixels is a 
bit overkill. For now, font selection is at compile time. It would be 
enought to modify the calendar patch so it can accept a variable line 
height.

However, I would like some feedback to the new font package I've built: 
I think some experiments I've made are really ugly because of the screen 
interlacing, but others are really good, and improve readability on the 
screen very much.

Please download http://www.manoweb.com/alesan/vdr/fontosd.tar.bz2 and 
pick one of the files inside the archive, rename it fontosd.c, place it 
on vdr directory, make clean && sh makevdr _*with no FONT= setting*_ (a 
vanilla vdr would be fine for this test)

I personally think that using Verdana or a good real Arial for the OSD 
is great.


bye
as