Re: FONT PROBLEM Updated, nearly complete, Swedish - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Dear Oskar,

I think you never get my previous mail, so I reply to myself :) [ my
IMAP/SMTP servers are really buggy for the moment]
After I read Andreas' post on wx-users and the replies which were sent
to him, I finally tested pgAdmin3 under enlghtenment on debian/unstable.
Fonts are really horrible! :)
What was suggested on wx-users was to edit your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and add
something like this:

<-------- cut here ------------->
style "defaultfont"
{
 font_name = "Arial 10"
}
widget_class "*" style "defaultfont"
<-------- cut here ------------->

I tried it and it worked for me... It looks close to what I can see with
a full gnome desktop.
Please also have a look to /usr/share/doc/enlightenment/README.Debian,
there is information concerning fonts in debian enlightenment
implementation.

You can find the entire thread on wx-users list at:
http://lists.wxwindows.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?8:mss:44237:200309:jgdnbjmpiagpccbpjnpb

Andreas, IMHO we may add some informations regarding this in a FAQ ?
I may also add a screen to the debian package with debconf so that
people are warned of such problems while installing the package. What's
your opinion ?

My last (should I say lost!) mail follow ;)

Regards,

Raphaël


Raphaël Enrici wrote:

> Oskar Berggren wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 21:48, Raphaël Enrici wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Oskar Berggren wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I did not use the x-window-system package. I don't remember exactly
>>>> what I did, it was several years ago, but I believe I just pulled
>>>> in the packages manually. There has been two major upgrades
>>>> concerning the X-packages on my installation, I think. From 4.0 -> 4.1
>>>> and then 4.1 -> 4.2. Manually upgraded (using apt-get).
>>>> I'm using evolution, and nothing fancy. I have never changed any
>>>> Gnome preferences, if that's what you mean, at least not knowingly.
>>>> At the moment I'm actually not sure how/where to change them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I'm not telling that you did something wrong, I just want to get
>>> the most information that I can so that we can try to figure out
>>> what's wrong with these fonts... May be I did something wrong when I
>>> built the package (I build them in a small chrooted environment...).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm, you seem to think that I became annoyed with you... Maybe I'm
>> seeing things that aren't there, but anyway, just so there is no
>> confusion: That was/is not the case, although when I read what I wrote
>> I suppose there is room for interpretation.  :-)
>>
>
> No problem with me :). I really appreciate the time you give to
> testing and your answers were really fast. I just didn't want to hurt
> you with questions that can look stupid ;)
>
>>> Can you just tell me what the fonts are if you go in
>>> "Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font".
>>> The window should tell you what your preferences are for
>>> Application, Desktop, window title and Terminal Font. On my
>>> workstation, "Application font" really change the way pgAdmin3 appears.
>>>
>>
>> What I meant to say above was that I'm using Enlightenment. The word
>> 'Evolution' must have come from a temporary brain shortcircuit or
>> something. :)
>>
> Oh yes 'Enlightenment', I thought you were saying that other apps
> (like evolution) were looking nice :)
>
>>  Therefore I do not have the menus you are referring
>> to, and I did not at the time know where the setting was actually
>> stored. I have however done some research, and from what I gather
>> using gconftool-2, the setting was "Sans", 10pt, which at least on my
>> system looks suspicously similar to "Bitstream Vera Sans". For two
>> reasons I don't think that setting was actually used:
>>   1. Changing it to something else did not have any effect.
>>      Tried abiword, gnumeric, pgadmin3, file-roller... no effect.
>>   2. What was actually used looked bigger than 10pt.
>>
>> I did the following experiment: I installed gnome-session and some
>> other necessary packages and logged on as a different user, that
>> was configured to use a gnome environment. Now the setting did seem
>> to have an effect, in that environment. Changing it definately changed
>> the font used by pgadmin3 (and abiword, gnumeric, etc...). When logged
>> on as my normal user (using enlightenment) the setting seems to be
>> ignored again.
>>
>> Even though I could get the application to use a smaller font, there
>> was still problems with missing space, though I did not make a really
>> thorough investigation of that at the time, as I did not have time.
>> One thing I did notice is that frame with the debug level settings in
>> the option dialog is strangely aligned and even jumps aroung a bit,
>> depending on font/fontsize. Attached is a screenshot showing how this
>> looks when using Enlightement. That problem was there when logged on
>> using gnome-session etc. as well.
>>
>
> I didn't received the screenshot.
> Today Andreas posted something concerning the fonts and the way they
> are handled by wxWindows to the wx-users list. Firsts replies seem to
> refer to gtk2 and its gtkrc files. So, it seems that the settings we
> are looking for may be found in global gtkrc-2.0 or in users' one.
> I did a test as root user in my unstable chrooted environment and here
> is the list of files that were looked for:
> /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
> /root/.gtkrc-2.0
> /root/.themes/Simple/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
> /usr/share/themes/Simple/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
> /root/.themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
> /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
> /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
> /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
>
> Another thing I noticed is the link with fontconfig library (fc-list,
> fc-cache commands).
>
> When you'll have more time can you please send me the results of a
> strace on pgadmin3 (the command I use is: 'strace -f pgadmin3') in
> your two environments (I mean enlightenment and gnome one) ? and may
> be have a look to your gtkrc files ?
> In the next days, I'll try to reproduce the problem you mentionned in
> a full debian unstable environment based on the dpkg --get-selections
> you sent to me yesterday.
>
> One more time, thank you for your answers. I really hope we'll figure
> out what's going on.
>
> Best,
>
> Raphaël
>
>>> Can you also send me a 'xlsfonts' ?
>>>
>>
>> Attached.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oskar
>>