ru translation fix | default "hardwired" font suggestion

Roman Shiryaev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

1/ I've fixed a few annoying typos in russian translation of xmms 
(CVS).
You can grab it from
http://home.onego.ru/~rmn/xmms/ru.po.bz2

2/ 
Developers, please, don't disregard the following problem:

There are incorrect default font settings in xmms (for example, 
for russians). Over the last several years. :/

So I want to suggest simple solution.

2a/ There are "hardwired" -adobe-helvetica-* font without russian 
glyphs so it's better to use -*-helvetica-*

2b/ XMMS doesn't uses charsets by default and users (especially 
russians :) couldn't see their KOI8-R/CP1251/etc. characters in 
playlist and in scrolling bar. They see only ruined iso8859-*.
So I think it's better to check both the 'Use fontsets' and the 
'Use X Font' checkbox by default in Prefs->Fonts

2c/ I think that current default sizes of playlist's and 
mainwin's fonts are small and unreadable (I don't wear 
glasses :-) There are helvetica 10 and 8 point. I've tried using 
xfontsel to find an optimal font size of helvetica iso8859-* and 
koi8-* and I think that 14 point is the best (both for mainwin 
and for playlist). All another helvetica sizes (8-13) look 
really bad.

See screenshots to understand the problem
Without patch
http://home.onego.ru/~rmn/xmms/xmms-ulgy_microscopic_and_incorrect_fonts.jpg
With patch
http://home.onego.ru/~rmn/xmms/xmms-perfect_and_correct_fonts.jpg

See my trivial patch that fixes all above-mentioned stuff (imho, 
the solution is simple and harmless)
http://home.onego.ru/~rmn/xmms/xmms-20040811-customize-fonts.patch

Thanks.
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