taskband - Start button and username displayed in start menu use the wrong font with Japanese locale

[unexp]

From a bit of tweaking with fonts I think the correct font for the start button is MS UI Gothic (which I don't think is bundled with the project yet), not sure about the username

Expected behavior (Windows XP SP3)

Current behavior with xfce-winxp-tc:

[unexp]

System font in general seems to be MS UI Gothic 9pt (I think so at least) on Windows XP SP3 with the Japanese locale, you should probably add that if possible

[rozniak]

MS UI Gothic instead of Tahoma? 🤔

[unexp]

MS UI Gothic instead of Tahoma? 🤔

It seems like it, I've looked for a bit and MS UI Gothic looks about right

[unexp]

MS UI Gothic instead of Tahoma? 🤔

It seems like it, I've looked for a bit and MS UI Gothic looks about right

The ellipsis look different but all the other letters seem to be the same

[rozniak]

Do you want to try changing Franklin Gothic Medium to MS UI Gothic here and recompile the Luna (Blue) theme to see whether it looks correct?

https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/blob/master/themes/luna/blue/gtk-3.0/styling/start-menu.scss#L105

[unexp]

Sure, give me a moment

[unexp]

Do you want to try changing Franklin Gothic Medium to MS UI Gothic here and recompile the Luna (Blue) theme to see whether it looks correct?

https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/blob/master/themes/luna/blue/gtk-3.0/styling/start-menu.scss#L105

It looks about right it just needs to be bold, I just don't know how to make it both bold and italic because I don't work with GTK or sass

[rozniak]

If you change the last parameter from undefined to bold it should make it bold - it should already be italic (can see it is in that screenshot... very slightly).

[unexp]

Looks pretty close now but the original looks bolder

[rozniak]

That does look far better - it might be the best that can be done in GTK3 (at least with what I know atm, unless something can be fudged with Pango).

Kind of awkward to get a change like this to work across locales since the theme doesn't change... perhaps a CSS class can be added to the Start menu if running under a locale that should have special handling. 🤔

[unexp]

Either that or I'm looking at the wrong font, I'm not sure

[rozniak]

I'll have a play around with it some more - probably need to check over other non-Latin locales as well. Appreciate your patience with the testing. 😁

[unexp]

No problem :)

[unexp]

Username font seems to also be MS UI Gothic Bold