Re: [Evolution] non-gtkhtml font question

[Jon Nall <nall pa dec com>]

hmmm,
well i poked around in gnomecc a bit, and changing the default font
under Desktop->Theme Selector fixed the problem i originally posted
about. however, i now see the problem in the "To:" widget that ujwal
talks about.

nall.

On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 02:22, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote:
> Well, it turned out that I had ISO8859-9 picked instead of ISO8859-1 in
> the gnomecc. But switching to ISO8859-1 still did not fix the problem.
> Maybe it has something to with the fact that the text of "To:" needs to
> be in bold. That's how it is in Evolution on my work machine where
> everything seems OK.
>
> I am using Helvetica 14 for variable and Courier 12 for fixed width.
>
> Ujwal
>
> On Sun, 2001-09-02 at 23:07, iain wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 00:14, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote:
> > > Ditto. I had the same problem running XFree86 4.10 on Mandrake 8. Then
> > > one day after an evolution/gtkhtml upgrade from CVS, it disappeared.
> > > However, I still have that problem in other places of Evolution. One
> > > example is when I hit the "To:" button in a Composer window. The top
> > > button (which should also read "To:") in the window that pops up is
> > > messed up. I am attaching a screenshot...
> >
> > MMM, nice :)
> > What that meant when things like that happened to me was I was using the
> > wrong font. Instead of ISO8859-1 it turned out I was using ISO8859-15.
> > Changing back to ISO8859-1 in the gnomecc capplet fixed some of them.
> > The original posters problem with the [][] in the folder button I put
> > down to a bug in the shell code that means it doesn't know what name to
> > put there, so puts random garbage there instead, and random garbage is
> > usually not printable :) We know about that problem though. It's related
> > to the missing icons and [None] in the title bar I think.
> >
> > iain