Re: [Evolution] Huge Fonts under SuSE 9.3/KDE

[Kelly Burkhart <kelly tradebotsystems com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:14 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > I just upgraded from Evolution 1.<something> to 2.2.1 while upgrading
> > from SuSE 9.1 to 9.3.  Evolution now has huge fonts in the folder view
> > and in the subject view.
>
> I'm not sure which "views" you are referring to exactly -- the folder
> tree left hand and the mail pane at the top containing all mails in the
> current folder?

Yes.

> > gnome-font-properties has no effect.
>
> It should. Actually "Application font" in 'gnome-font-properties' is the
> setting responsible for both mentioned above.

<snip>

> A common reason for issues like this is the gnome-settings-daemon not
> running. Without this daemon, adjusting Gnome settings won't have any
> effect, IIRC.
>
> Try adding gnome-settings-daemon to your KDE Session.
>
> This has been the solution for most issues with GNOME apps on a KDE
> desktop not behaving nicely -- I'm not a KDE user, though... ;)

That was the problem.  gnome-font-properties didn't seem to work because
gnome-settings-daemon wasn't running.  I created a soft link to
gnome-settings-daemon in ~/.kde/Autostart and things seem to work fine
now.

Thanks,

-K