Re: Font selection in Nautilus, where is it done?

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:

 Hi, 


> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Dear All,
> > > 	I would like to ask how the fonts that appear in
> > > the caption of files in Nautilus specified.
> > > 	I have found four related places in nautilus.po
> > > and I have put correct values for the el language.
> > >
> > > However, the fonts that are used for
> > > 	. the captions of icons (files/etc)
> > > 	. the Notes/History/Tree/Help tabs
> > >
> > > are not iso-8859-7 fonts as they should.
> >
> >  Same for russian - iso-8859-1 font is used (needs fonts in koi8-r encoding).
> >  But I have only Feb25 snapshot - I'll be able to test 1.0 in 2 days, and
> > will report the problem..
> >
> >  Also, color names and pattern names in "appearance" (or whatever) completely
> > disappear when I turn off smooth graphics, and appear using font with
> > hardcoded iso-8859-1 encoding (i.e. russian becomes unreadable ..).
> 
> Just noted that the problem has been already reported on
> bugzilla@eazel.com. It's ID is: 5456
> 
> http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5456
> 
> However, the font family that is used (helvetica) is a translatable
> string. I have translated it to "helveticagr" which has *-iso8859-7,
> however it does not work.

 Yes, I have the same experience.
 
> Can the "tr" and "ru" maintainers (who verified the problem) tinker
> with this? One just needs to "msgufmt" the translation, fix and "msgfmt"
> again to test.
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool that can show what font is used in the text box
> of a specific application, while it is running..?

 I looked at the code of feb25 snapshot - it looks it's written correctly and
should work  (i.e. it should return font with registry-charset corresponding 
to current locale). The only reasons it doesn't work is that gtk_set_locale()
wasn't called in the component that draws text on tabs of sidebar - but that
function should have also called since gnome_init() calls it.. So, I should
say I don't understand at all why it doesn't use proper font.. 

 One anonymous guy in one forum told me that he was able to solve the problem
by installing unicode ttf font (from M$ page) - lucida - and selected it as a
main font used by Nau - and he says it fixed ALL problems in Nautilus 1.0. He
even posted a screenshot - it really works.. I suggest you to try the same -
as for me, I didn't try it (since I don't have Nau 1.0 yet - and I can't
select font in my Feb25 snapshot - there is no GUI widget for that in version
I have). I'll try to research this on Tuesday..

PS: your MUA (pine it seems) is misconfigured - it doesn't put your return
email address (From: header) on the letters for some reason..

> simos
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad