Review of "Retro LCD 7-Segment Clock" version 54

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Vintage digital display with a high-fidelity 7-segment font. 10 color themes, custom colors, ghost segments, CRT scanlines, desktop widget mode, a quick color-switch menu, and integrated alarms with an on-screen dialog so they're never missed. Reads its own bundled font and alarm sound files, and copies the bundled font into ~/.local/share/fonts on first opening preferences so the live preview renders correctly; no other file access.

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https://gitlab.com/corral1976/gnome-shell-extension-relojlcd

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Font Style Implementation Review Thank you for your time reviewing this extension. I've added a font style feature that lets users choose between Regular, Italic, Bold, and Italic Bold for the LCD clock. The implementation uses only standard CSS properties (font-weight and font-style) without any @font-face declarations. The Pango/FreeType text rendering engine automatically generates the synthetic bold and italic styles from the single approved DSEG7Classic-Regular.ttf font file. This approach keeps the extension lightweight and follows GNOME Shell best practices. The changes include: New font-style setting in the schema Dropdown in preferences UI with live preview Dynamic CSS application in the extension code No additional font files are added, and the implementation fully complies with the review guidelines.
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