[crossfire] clients

[Lalo Martins]

quoth Mark Wedel as of Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:55:43 -0700:
> Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
>> 
>> One of the arguments I had for GTK-V1 back in the day was the font
>> size... It was nice and small compared to GTK-V2.  I think that is
>> still an issue for small screens.  It would be nice to be able to do
>> something about that in GTK-V2 without making someone change the font
>> for GTK2 system-wide. Not changing the reply here, just making note of
>> one thing GTK-V1 still has over GTK-V2 despite the layout capability in
>> GTK-V2
> 
>   I believe (but could be wrong) that both the gtk and gtk-v2 client
>   basically
> use the standard system font - they are not going through extra hoops to
> mess with font size.
> 
>   That said, the default system font may very well not be usable on a
>   low
> resolution screen.
> 
>   Note that a while back, I added theme support to the gtk-v2 client. 
>   So using
> a different font may just be as simple as making a new theme with
> different font settings.

Ah, that would be correct :-)  The themes (not to be confused with 
layouts) are just gtkrc files.  As such, you can set a font.  I'll play 
around with that later and tell you if/how it works.  (Or you can.)

best,
                                               Lalo Martins
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