Re: [Evolution] Evolution 0.5.1 is still profoundly unstable on my system

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley att net>]

Alfons Hoogervorst wrote:

> Lo Ettore,
>
> On 23 Sep 2000 07:55:56 -0400 you wrote about "Re: [Evolution] Evolution 0.5.1 is still profoundly unstable 
> on my  system",
>
> >     Dan> But  enough about  that.   I  doubt that  this  could be  the
> >     Dan> problem with evolution.  I had no trouble at all with this in
> >     Dan> 0.4.1.   If I launch  evolution now,  I can  kill it  just by
> >     Dan> going  into  Control Panel,  Theme  Selector,  clicking on  a
> >     Dan> custom  font, and  hitting  Ok.   So I'm  sure  that all  the
> >     Dan> instability I'm seeing is due to something along the lines of
> >     Dan> the theme problem in 0.5.0 that just hasn't been fixed yet.
> >
> >   BTW, what custom font are you using?

I'm using the Default theme with the Clean font (Mandrake 7.0).  I'm not exactly sure how to tell, but I'm 
pretty sure this is
a True Type font, so this is probably what's happening on my system.

> I think I had the same problem... I submitted a bug report for this.
>
> If I select a font served by the true type font server (xfstt), Evolution
> refuses to start.
>
> I looked into the source code. At a certain time a GDK font is requested
> (for conversion to an EFont* structure). If the font is a true type one,
> the GDK request fails with -1. However, the evolution code does not check
> the return value (perhaps it should fall back to a default GDK font?)

It should probably be fixed to so that it works with the TT font.  ;-)  But falling back to another font, 
possibly with a
warning message, would be much better than crashing...

Dan