DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

Tom Brinkman tbrinkman at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 8 17:50:52 UTC 2006


On 08 11:59:S, Joel Rittvo wrote:
> Joel Rittvo wrote:
> > Tom Brinkman wrote:
> >> On 07 7:38:S, Rahul wrote:
> >>> Most users dont change any font defaults
> >>
> >>   Wrong!
> >>
> >>> In Fedora, we try to be as close to
> >>> upstream sources as possible
> >>
> >>    Which is why I switched from (years on) Mdv-cooker to
> >> FC-test
> >>
> >>> and if those fixes were included in GNOME, they would
> >>> automatically benefit all downstream
> >>> distributions and users instead of tackling these kind of
> >>> issues redundantly in every distributions.
> >>
> >>    Again you state Gnome centric mindset. More users use KDE.
> >> This is not to start a vi/emacs type controversy, just
> >> reality.
> >>
> >>    Nevermind, I'll just keep runnin g-f-p after login to fix
> >> Gnome apps under KDE.
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > See if this applet, that installs into the KDE Control Center's
> > "Appearance and Themes" section, helps you any.
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gtk-qt
> >
> > Joel
>
> I just noticed that you can get it as an rpm from Extras also.

   OK, you talked me into it ;) 'yum install gtk-qt-engine'

  BUT, as soon as I click on "GTK Styles and Fonts", kcontrol 
segfaults an disappears.

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    Tom Brinkman                   Corpus Christi, Texas




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