Turn bold fonts into italic ones

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Ricardo Cruz

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Jul 12, 2010, 10:11:35 AM7/12/10
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Hi there,

Stanislav suggested we replace the usage of bold fonts for
level-2 headers by italic ones:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=375271

He also made the following suggestions to the changelog
box:
Package maintainers typically split Changelog entries to 70-80
characters long lines with indentation. In the default view with
the default size, only about 50-60 characters fit to a single
line.

This could be improved by:
- if display is large enough, default to larger window
- default to smalled font in Changelog
- add pane between column 1 and 2
- move Changelog as last item and use multi span over both two
columns

Full comment at:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620513#c34

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Personally, I'm not fond of the bold -> italic change. But it could
be a
matter of getting used to.

Dunno about the changelog suggestions, but they don't attract me
much.
Some points:

a) "if display is large enough, default to larger window"
Not sure it's a good idea to change the window size on-the-fly just
because
the user opened the changelog box. We could use a bigger window size
by
default, but the current one is fairly wide as it is.

b) "default to smalled font in Changelog"
Some users, such as myself, already default to smaller system fonts.
Other than for sub-titles, I'd avoid reducing font sizes. But this is
the
suggestions I prefer actually.

c) "add pane between column 1 and 2"
Not sure what this meant at first. I think Stanislav is suggesting
to let the user manually reduce the size of the Details/Versions
column. The thing is that column is already as small as it can be,
so this would better be implemented by a open/close 2nd column
switch. And we already have such a switch.

d) "move Changelog as last item and use multi span over both two
columns"
It would cause glitches in many cases... User opens Versions box, and
now
there is empty space between the Changelog and its sibling items.

Cheers,
Ricardo
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