Re: [gdm-list] gdm graphical greeter not setting default font size ?

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 12:43 +0800, Brian Cameron a écrit :
> Frederic:
> 
> > while investigating Mandriva bug
> > http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=29870 and reading gdm code, it
> > seems font size is never set in graphical greeter when not specified in
> > theme, since it defaults to "Sans", see greeter_parser.c:1435 and
> > according to pango_font_description_from_string API documentation,
> > resulting information will give a font size of 0. And when
> > do_font_size_reduction is called after, it still sets font size to 0.
> > 
> > Shouldn't we enforce a default font size ? 10 or 12 maybe ?
> 
> Out of curiousity, do you have a valid value set in the GDM 
> configuration for GtkRC.  If this is set to a valid value, it might
> affect how fonts look.  The problem may be you have it set to an
> invalid file?

I've asked original reporter for more informations about this bug and
problem has been fixed, so it may have been caused by a incorrect
GtkTheme key.

I tried to duplicate but I couldn't.

> If that doesn't fix the problem, I'd be happy to accept a patch to
> default to a reasonable fontsize.

I've discussed with Bedhad about this and he suggested to use gtkwidget
default font description and merge the property from the theme using
pango_font_description_merge.

WDYT ?

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva