Re: win32: use ms default fonts for menus and such... need a pango expert

[Evan Martin <martine danga com>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:00PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> I'm interested, using the default win32 fonts for all menus and such, as 
> this will look much more familiar to win32 users, than the GTK defaults.
>
> Allin Cottrell has written code to do exactly this, see:
>
> http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/gtk_win32/#winfont
>
> The code works fine in it's GTK1 version, but the GTK2 version fails (at 
> least on my Win XP machine),
> although Allin reported that it works on his systems (Win 98 and XP) ok.

This probably belongs in your GTK theme, not in your application.  I
know I tried to do something like this when I was writing gtk-nativewin
(now part of gtk-wimp: http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/).  Looking at
their screenshots, it appears they actually may use Windows fonts
already. 

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Evan Martin
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