On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:51:32 -0700 "Michael Moore" <stuporglue@...155...> wrote:
Notice how Inkscape is kind of Grey and funny looking (not like a normal Mac app)? That's GTK. ;-) GTK looks great on Linux, not as great on Mac. GTK determines the font size, among other things, but no one so far has known which files to edit to change the GTK settings.
On my Linux (Mandriva) system it's $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 and contains just one setting for user_font: style "user-font" { font_name = "Bitstream Vera Sans 12" } widget_class "*" style "user-font"
Changing this font definition alters the font used for menus, tips and displays in subsidiary tool windows. However the rulers obdurately stay at 5-point (unreadable for me), and co-ordinate displays (eg X, Y, H, W) are probably 9-point (just readable). It's not a theme thing, all the themes use my default font sizes, which are 12-point or larger.
Essentially, it's not exactly an Inkscape issue, it's a GTK issue. Inkscape *does* use GTK, but so do thousands of other programs.
Yup, other programs (eg Sylpheed) pick up that "user-font" setting too, but Inkscape may be looking for other definitions for the smaller fonts. I rather suspect that src/widgets/widget-sizes.h plays a part in this, but random poking at it is much less efficient than getting someone who understands the code to comment....
Mike