Re: Interface font

Martin Sevior wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:44 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:50, Andy Korvemaker wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:27:13 -0500 (CDT), "Lars Eighner" said:
>>>
>>>>> --- Lars Eighner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I adjust the interface font. That is the font used in the
>>>>>> toolbars and menus, not the font used in documents.
>>>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> AbiWord uses the GTK+ 2.0 toolkit. You should consult their
>>>>> documentation on the matter.
>>>>>
>>>> So your answer is:
>>>> a) you don't know
>>>> b) you do know but you won't tell me
>>>>
>>> Oh, he knows. Dom knows all. :-)
>>>
>>> I don't think there is a simple answer. I know when I was running GNOME,
>>> setting the default font for programs set it for AbiWord as well. So...
>>> (going from memory) that would probably be under something like
>>> Preferences -> Fonts on the GNOME menu bar.
>>>
>>> If you're not using GNOME, I'm not sure how to change the GTK defaults.
>>> There's probably some program available, and it's likely a setting in a
>>> text file, perhaps ~/.gtkrc or something similar. But I'm guessing. I'm
>>> on a Mac now, so I can't check it on my own system.
>>>
>>> Google pointed me to
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/013413.html
>>> That may help.
>>>
>>> andy
>>>
>> Gnome seems to be fading a bit. I use Slackware and the entire
>> Gnome suite has been deleted. This means that whatever version I
>> now have of Abiword is probably the one I will use in perpetuity.
>>
>> It is perhaps too late for Abiword to adopt a new interface, but
>> the persistent use of Gnome seems to limit the audience a bit.
>>
>>
>
> Wow. This is one of the strangest posts I've seen in a long time. I wish
> the slackware community well but comparing what happens there to the
> general state of linux distros is pretty weird.
>
> For a start there is a very dedicated bunch of slackware hackers who are
> aggressively supporting gnome. They provide dropline gnome. You can find
> them along with some fantastic packages you can drop into your slackware
> distro here.
>
> http://www.droplinegnome.net/
>
> The Ubuntu, Fedora Core, RedHat and Novell companies all support Gnome
> as their default desktop. The Debian Community also supports Gnome has
> it's default desktop. I cannot see Gnome dying anytime soon. There is
> now a genuine eco-system of companies that make a living via the Gnome
> desktop.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>

Just as a quick addendum - from a dev/GNOME point of view,
libgnomeprint[ui] is barely a "GNOME" thing at all - it is highly useful
no matter what DE you use, and unfortunately has GNOME in the name so
Patrick decided it wasn't worth it.

Also, from a Slackware "purist" point of view, Freerock GNOME (google
it, I don't use Slack on the desktop anymore) or other distributions of
GNOME other than Dropline tend to be a more "compatible" install and
change minimal things - last time I looked, Dropline was nearly a re-do
of the entire distro, including replacing X.org and so on, whereas
Freerock is the minimal changes needed to install GNOME. I know it is
more palatable to several users of Slackware, and so I add it as a
suggestion here. Please do note that only libgnomeprint,
libgnomeprintui, and I think hi-color-icon-theme (required for the
previous) are required for a non-GNOME (GTK only) build of AbiWord on Linux.

(Oh, and it's not "too late" to change interfaces - we just prefer to
add them, like Mac OS X, rather than dump a stable base of users and
developers :D)

Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan

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Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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