DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 7 22:37:08 UTC 2006


Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On 07 4:12:S, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 07:35 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>>> As you say tho, gtk settings are lost on logout.
>> It looks like gnome-settings-daemon is the thing really
>> doing the work. I may be able to just run it without
>> getting a gui popup, but it also does a zillion other
>> things to screw around with me (which is one of the reasons
>> I hate gnome).
>>
>> I'll have to strace it and follow the breadcrumbs back to
>> the source and see if I can squelch everything except the
>> font tweaking :-).
> 
>    As I said, other distros solved the qt? / gtk? / dpi font 
> disparities quite a while ago.  Seems just borrowing their 
> (Mdv) 'fixes' would be better than reinventing the wheel.
> 
>    Since switchin to FC, I jus figured FC hasn't done it since KDE 
> seems to be treated like a junk yard dog in Fedora. Still a lot of 
> FC users use KDE, but like me, many Gnome apps too. An it seems to 
> me this is more important that searchin for a default font.

Its not searching for a default font. Its considering switching to a new 
one. If you think there are other things more important, contribute. 
You arent being particularly helpful calling KDE a junk yard.

Rahul




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