Re: Anyone know how to use a larger font for an entire application using Glade?

[Micah Carrick <email micahcarrick com>]

Russell Markus wrote:
> I have developed an application using Glade-2 on Fedora Core 6.  I have had
> a request to make all of the text larger.  Is there an easy way to use a
> larger font for the entire application or do I have to use the markup
> settings for each widget individually?
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
> Russell Markus
> Sr. Software Engineer
> IPMobileNet, Inc.
> (949)417-4590 
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I believe the idea is to allow the user to specify font size rather than 
the application. Part of Desktop GUI development is allowing your 
program to fit the customer's needs (ie 10 years ago I preferred tiny 
little fonts, and now that I'm going blind they get progressively larger).

Font sizes are specified in 'System' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Fonts' under 
GNOME in FC6.

If you really want to specify your own font, you may want to use an rc 
file: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html

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