Re: changing default fonts for menus

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:39:54PM +0000, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
> Jody Goldberg writes: 
>
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:02:02PM +0000, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
> > > how can I change the default menu font in gnumeric 1.1.17? What files do 
> > > I have to modify? I have found apps/gnumeric/core/defaultfont/%gconf.xml 
> > > but where are the docs about its format? 
> >
> > I'm not clear what you mean by the default font.
> > The gconf keys
> >    /apps/gnumeric/core/defaultfont/name
> >    /apps/gnumeric/core/defaultfont/size 
> >
> > control the family and size to use by default.  However, thats not
> > going to change the content of old saved files, just newly created
> > formats.
> > ______________________
>
> well, I want the menus of gnumeric, like "File", "Edit" .... and the items 
> "New","Open..." and etc to display with different font than the defined by 
> default. I was looking at souces and set DEFAULT_FONT to "Courier" in 
> src/style.h but gnumeric ignores the change. I would like to know where is 
> the font for menus defined? 

Oh.  That is a completely different setting.  The fonts used in the
menus and toolbars are configured using the standard tools for Gtk+
and GNOME.  The gnome control center has a font configuration tool
    gnome-font-properties 
that you can run from the command line or the control center shell.