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Old 02-21-2008, 11:54 AM
J.O. Aho
 
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Default Re: Crappy new default font?

Wim Cossement wrote:
> Yup, this does the trick!
> Neato.
>
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> Wim Cossement wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know why the default font has changed in KDE?
>>> I did not change it myself, and in the Control center I still have
>>> good 'ol Bistream Vera for most things, but this one looks like a
>>> small fucked up version of Courier (new) or Andale mono, and are not
>>> very readable.
>>>
>>> And by default font I mean the ones that don't respect the ones I set
>>> in the Control center, like the menus in Thunderbird and Gaim for
>>> instance...

>>
>> Those "default" fonts you are talking about are mastered by gnome2, so
>> it's not KDEs fault that they change. You could install gtk-qt Theme
>> Engine, which in Gentoo is called gtk-engines-qt, this gives you the
>> option to manipulate gnome2 fonts from KDE without use of Gnome2
>> configuration tools.


An you can get the programs to look more like those in KDE, except that they
do display those ok/cancel buttons in the wrong order (seems like gnome2
devels don't want to honor "gtk-alternative-button-order = true").


//Aho
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