Font size in menus and dialogs and other things
Hi list,
I just built and installed inkscape-0.38.1 successfully on my SuSE Linux 8.1 box. After a few initial problems importing graphics created with sodipodi, at the moment the following issues remain:
1) The font size of menus and dialogs is very small.
Is there a way of changing it, e.g. to the default size that other GTK apps use? If not (e.g. because it is hardcoded), can someone point me to a location in the code where I can change it?
2) It seems inkscape expects all strings (including file names) to be UTF-8 encoded (although I do not use a UTF-8 locale, but de_DE@...120... Thus file names that contain german umlauts etc. cause trouble. Setting G_BROKEN_FILENAME helped here but problems with german umlauts in sodipodi graphics remain. (I removed them by editing the svg files manually before loading them into inkscape).
Is there a way for inkscape to use other than UTF encoding?
3) With sodipodi I have added text elements to a drawing which used a fixed width font and contained multiple blanks to form a simple table. But inkscape prints only one blank for any number of blanks in a row.
How can I enter text so that multiple blanks are displayed between two words?
Thanks in advance Mario
Quoth Mario Streiber on or about 2004-05-19:
How are you changing font size for GTK? Note that GTK+1 and GTK+2 have independent settings. Also note that (on my machine) running a GNOME program makes the font size instantly go small.
I use this http://www.muhri.net/nav.php3?node=gts to change font sizes for GTK+1 and GTK+2.
HTH -trent
Usually I work under KDE. Just for fun I started a Gnome Session and there the inkscape menus and dialogues come up with a normal font size. Back in KDE the inkscape menus are very tiny again.
(Indeed all other GTK programs I have are GTK+1 and they work well)
I tried it. When selecting a larger font, it will display the current theme with this font, but after applying and exiting it has no effect on newly started gtk2 apps. It writes a file named ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following lines:
style "user-font" { font_name="Adobe Helvetica 12" } widget_class "*" style "user-font"
Unfortunately this file is not read when I start inkscape (or any other gtk2 app), as strace shows.
I found the following environment variable which seems to indicate which GTK resource files to read:
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/usr/share/themes/Geramik/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:~/.gtkrc-2.0-HighColor:~/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
I would like to add ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to that variable (besides cleaning it up somewhat) but have no idea where it is set.
Any hints?
Thanks Mario
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 16:43, Mario Streiber wrote:
You may want to try this: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714
I have GTK-Qt installed, and gtk-qt theme set in my gtkrc, and all gtk apps use the same fonts and font sizes as in KDE. Works perfectly.
Artemio.
Trent Buck's Message from Wednesday 19 May 2004 16:09:
As I wrote further down the env variable GTK2_RC_FILES determines which config files to read. Meanwhile I found out that it is set in the kde startup script /opt/kde3/bin/startkde (at least on SuSE). I added $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 there and it works now.
I also tried gtk-qt as Artemio suggested. But even with this theme engine I had to specify a certain font and size in the gtkrc file. And also, this is much slower on my not-so-fast system so I decided not to use it.
Thanks anyway Mario
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