What is privacy specification?

[dram]

"3.2. Slot descriptors" in handbook says:

A slot descriptor consists of an optional privacy specification, followed by the slot name and an optional initializer.

But I can not find further description of "privacy specification", so what is it?

[russellallen]

It has no effect, its just for documentation. You can see it in the UI - specific public methods are bold for example. It isn't used consistently at the moment. It is one of the annotations you can make on objects or slots.

[dram]

Do you mean Visibility: public? I did not see any bold method names in Linux X11, is that macOS specific?

[dram]

If I define font alias for verdana, verdanaBold and verdanaItalic in X11Globals fontFamily, bold fonts can be displayed correctly.

I'd like to file those new slots out, I already set they to scalableFont module, but that module can not be found in All Modules list, then how can I file it out?

[dram]

Found it in "Changed Modules", and here's PR #73.

[russellallen]

What Linux are you on?

[doublec]

I'm on Ubuntu 15.04 and don't see a difference in font between public and private slots. The patch in PR #73 has no visible effect either but it does stop the warning in the console about verdana not existing.

[dram]

I'm on Debian 8.

I double checked PR #73 and confirm that bold font can be shown in slot names. e.g. in shell object, help slot is shown in bold font.

[doublec]

Odd, maybe I don't have the required fonts. Here's a screenshot:

[russellallen]

Linux fonts have been a pain point for a while. We're using the oldest font handling part of X11 and the available fonts are not just limited but vary from distro to distro.

[doublec]

Yes, a solution might be to continue on https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/01/08/improving-linux-font-support-in-self.html

[dram]

Here is my screenshot, pay attention to help slot and buttons on top right.

[dram]

Hi @doublec, when looking more closely to your screenshot, I found that all texts seem to be displayed with fixed font.

Could you install xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi and try again? Those two package contains helvetica font.

[Bystroushaak]

Could you install xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi and try again? Those two package contains helvetica font.

I've installed the packages, but I don't see the help in bold. But all other fonts are now super weird.

Before:

After:

[dram]

I would say displaying all UI texts in monospace font is also a bit unusual.

helvetica will look better if in larger size. Following screenshot is run with following configuration:

selfCatOrObjModel moduleSummaryFontSpec size: 16.
selfGeneralSlotModel undeclaredTitleFontSpec size: 14.
selfGeneralSlotModel privateTitleFontSpec size: 14.
selfGeneralSlotModel publicTitleFontSpec size: 14.
generalCategoryModel objectTitleFontSpec size: 16.
generalCategoryModel objectTitleFontSpec style: 'bold'.
generalCategoryModel subcategoryTitleFontSpec size: 14.
ui2_textField fontSpec: globals fontSpec copyName: '9x15bold' Size: 15.
ui2Menu defaultFontSpec: ui2Menu defaultFontSpec copySize: 16.

[dram]

BTW, @Bystroushaak, did you apply changes in PR #73? It is needed to show bold font slot names.

[Bystroushaak]

I would say displaying all UI texts in monospace font is also a bit unusual.

That is the default configuration, I didn't change anything on my system.

BTW, @Bystroushaak, did you apply changes in PR #73? It is needed to show bold font slot names.

Ah, now I get it. I will try that later.

[dram]

@Bystroushaak, read screenshots in handbook more closely, you will find that monospace font was not used so heavily there.

http://handbook.selflanguage.org/4.5/howtoprg.html

[dram]

With further investigation, I found that changes in #73 is not needed. To show bold slot names, run following code (make sure that you have fonts times installed):

selfGeneralSlotModel publicTitleFontSpec name: 'helvetica'.