On Jan 27, 2004, at 1:00 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 27.01.04 08:33:34:
On my NT 4.0 machine, with GTK+ 1.3[.x], it seems to pick a font that
looks as if it might be the menu font, but picks a size smaller than
the
one in Windows applicatin menu bars.
So I fear, this is almost unreadable?
Not for me, but I have reasonably good vision - some might find them
too small.
(That stuff ultimately belongs in GTK+)
Hardly agree with that, but as you've written, unless they do it, we
have to do it ourselves!
Maybe GNOME handles this completely different, so it doesn't have a
problem here.
And as I think the main GTK development is done by developers running
GNOME,
they might even see that this is a problem?!
Well, there is, in theory, the XSettingsRegistry stuff I mentioned -
the problem is that the system font item is GTK+-specific, so it won't,
for example, pick up the system font on a KDE system. (Ethereal looks
odd on my home laptop's KDE 3.0 desktop - the GTK+ system font is
bigger.) I suspect freedesktop.org would have to come up with a
standard for font descriptions in order to make that work across
toolkits/desktop environments. (Or would you just specify a font
family, with menu bars always choosing normal style, normal weight,
etc.?)