Re: [Evolution] Font strangeness in 1.3.

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 11:47, Not Zed wrote:
> Hrm, looking at gtkhtml source, it looks like pressing F12 will dump the
> html tree to stdout.  That might show something up if it works ... but
> its probably the html converter anyway.

Will try. 

> > I think it's just the font it's using. Previously, the bold face and the
> > normal face (of the font used by Evo 1.2) were sufficiently different
> > that you can tell the difference at a glance. With the font used by Evo
> > 1.3 on my box, however, the bold face isn't as different, and it's hence
> > much harder to tell new mail from old.
>
> Maybe its your screen/resolution, i've got a 1024x768 lcd screen and its
> pretty obviously bold in that screenshot.  I dont know what can be done
> about it, other than turning off antialiasing/trying a different font. 
> Sub-pixel emboldening would allow a "finer" bold, perhaps that is the
> issue.

OK, I'll play about with it later. It's not wonderfully important. I'm
getting slightly more used to it as I keep trying evo 1.3 anyway.

> Sigh, now i can't even start the main window!  10 pm anyway, might crack
> a pale and watch Australia beat Zimbabwe in the cricket ... (might make
> it more interesting if they didn't though !)

I may be imagining it, but I seem to get fewer segfaults at startup if I
keep changing folders during the startup period while it's checking all
the mailboxes for new mail (before actually displaying the mailboxes I
just clicked on, I note with disapproval :)

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dwmw2