xsettings-kde (was Re: Interface fonts in Firefox and Thunderbird with KDE4)
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Dec 30 23:36:02 UTC 2008
James Amundson wrote:
> James Amundson wrote:
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 21 December 2008, James Amundson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Does anyone out there understand how Firefox and Thunderbird determine
>>>> which fonts to use for their user interface, i.e., menus, etc? I have
>>>> installed "GTK styles and Fonts" display settings module. It works fine
>>>> for ordinary gtk and Gnome applications. However, Firefox and
>>>> Thunderbird seem to have some more complex system for determining their
>>>> system fonts.
>>>>
>>> Looks like they only honor the settings from gnome-settings-daemon (which
>>> doesn't run by default in KDE), not the GTK+ settings.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, that must be true. I did not have a problem with Fedora 8 and KDE
>> 3, so something must have changed. Any ideas?
>>
>
> OK. I think I see the culprit. Fedora 10 has
> xsettings-kde-0.6-3.fc8.x86_64 (fc8!!!!!!!!). The current version of
> xsettings-kde is 0.9. According to the xsettings-kde Changelog, KDE4
> support was added around 0.8.
>
> Is there any chance of getting a more recent version of xsettings-kde in
> Fedora 10? Should I submit a bug report?
xsettings-kde was never in fedora, only kde-redhat. And, last I knew,
never grew kde4 support... so the news that it has is welcome indeed.
I'll have to give it another look.
-- Rex
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