Thoughts for some polish
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:04 pm
These ideas are are not essential but may help with some perception.
I wonder if we should add to or change some of the installed fonts. There are a lot of sites that use emojis or other glyphs that are not in GhostBSD. From a new user's perspective, going to a site and seeing tofu (the square that's shown when you don't have a font to render that character) may make the OS seem incomplete or broken. Personally, I like Noto fonts which cover basically every character. However, the Noto metapackage is something like 2 GB. Maybe we include just noto-emoji or twemoji-color-font-ttf to help have a more expected, although not necessary, character set.
My second idea was with the docs, since I've been looking at them a lot lately. I wonder if we would benefit from having a style guide. They're usable now but I noticed in one of the documents there were a few different styles of notes. One looked like a code block, one had "Please note" in bold, and one has "Please note" in regular font. I added notes using bolded "Please note" but I don't really have a preference.
These aren't bugs or big issues but they may help to present a more cohesive system.
I wonder if we should add to or change some of the installed fonts. There are a lot of sites that use emojis or other glyphs that are not in GhostBSD. From a new user's perspective, going to a site and seeing tofu (the square that's shown when you don't have a font to render that character) may make the OS seem incomplete or broken. Personally, I like Noto fonts which cover basically every character. However, the Noto metapackage is something like 2 GB. Maybe we include just noto-emoji or twemoji-color-font-ttf to help have a more expected, although not necessary, character set.
My second idea was with the docs, since I've been looking at them a lot lately. I wonder if we would benefit from having a style guide. They're usable now but I noticed in one of the documents there were a few different styles of notes. One looked like a code block, one had "Please note" in bold, and one has "Please note" in regular font. I added notes using bolded "Please note" but I don't really have a preference.
These aren't bugs or big issues but they may help to present a more cohesive system.