[nevil] Default font

[vitkabele]

Hello,
the nevil look sets default font to monospace font, which looks awful. Are you open to change it to something else?

[kgilmer]

Hi @vitkabele , absolutely improvements are welcome. We'd need something that fits well with the monospace font (mononoki) that's already packaged for Ubuntu and Debian. If you've got some ideas please create a PR 🚀

[vitkabele]

Ok, I'll take a look into that

[sbmueller]

Why overwrite the font settings at all and not just leave it up to the gnome settings?

[kgilmer]

which font settings in particular @sbmueller ? AFAIK there are these specified by settings, but users would like to customize bar font, bar icons, terminal, etc..

$ gsettings list-recursively | grep font-name
org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name 'Sans 12'
org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Bitstream Vera Sans 12'
org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'BitstreamVeraSansMono Nerd Font 13'

[kgilmer]

The root-cause of this issue is that the nerdfonts that is specified for nevil does not have a non-monospace version. I think it would be best to switch the font to another nerdfont that provides both to fix this issue. I'll look into it.

[sbmueller]

Yes, I think that are the ones I mean (I set them on my machine via Gnome Tweaks).
After rebooting, my settings get overwritten again by the regolith look. I think it would be more sensible that specific user settings take precedence over theme defaults.
As a workaround, I have now commented out the font settings in the nord theme that I want to use. After that, everything is perfect 😃

[kgilmer]

I think it would be more sensible that specific user settings take precedence over theme defaults.

Agreed. The problem is how to know that a given setting was explicitly set by a user with the intention of not wanting it to be overwritten. Please let me know if you have any ideas here.

I have now commented out the font settings in the nord theme that I want to use...

Glad that's working for you, and perhaps it would be nice if a flag could be set to prevent regolith-look from writing to dconf/gsettings. LMK if you'd like to see such a feature in the future..

[kgilmer]

Also, just FYI, another way now that you could achieve the same result but be able to use different looks without modification is to update your copy of /usr/share/regolith-look/default_loader.sh and simply disable the gsettings set ... line that you would prefer left alone. Your current approach is perfectly fine..