Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Theme System Limitations

[David White]

James Barton wrote:

> In doing so, however, I have noticed a flaw in the theme system: 
> Namely, you don't have control over the font. You can control the size 
> of the writing, but not its style or colour.
>
> Specifying fonts is not critical, but I believe that it is important 
> if we want a proper theme system - obviously there'll need to be some 
> way to provide new fonts along with graphics / theme data. More 
> important is specifying font colour. As you can see from the attached 
> screenshot, if you want to create a light-coloured theme, the writing 
> can barely be seen. This is a problem.

Specifying font colour and size should be not too hard.

Specifying the actual font is more difficult, since you have to make it 
work nicely with internationalization.

I definitely think we should work on the colour/size thing at the very 
least though.

David