xsettings-kde (was Re: Interface fonts in Firefox and Thunderbird with KDE4)

[Rex Dieter]

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