Re: small gtk+ and gtk-eng. fixes (ru locale)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

> "Sergey I. Panov" <sipan@mit.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > I had to make a few changes in gtk+ and gtk-engines in order to
> > > get gtk+ and standart themes to use proper fonts with ru (Russian)
> > > locale.  Now gtk uses the same fonts as before in the standart
> > > setup, but it picks proper fonts when one is using ru locale. I
> > > did not check but, I beleive, my changes also make it easy to
> > > switch between locales that use iso8859-1,2,8,9
> > >
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > **********************************************
> > > *                                            *
> > > *   May I COMMIT those changes to CVS ????   *
> > > *                                            *
> > > **********************************************
> > 
> > Please don't. Switching to fontsets from fonts triggers
> > storing the contents of Text widgets as wide characters,
> > and, also, it is impossible to override a fontset with
> > a fontset.

Oops, this was meant to say "impossible to override a fontset
with a _font_." (The basic reason for doing it this way
is so that you can specify a fontset and not have it overriden
by non-i18n aware programs or themes)
 
> Did not know that!
> 
> > Simply create a file in your home directory call ~/.gtkrc.ru
> > 
> > that looks like:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > And things will work pretty nicely. (You'll lose the 
> > Lucida in the metal theme unless you modify this
> > file when switching to that theme)
> > 
> > We actually should ship a set of gtkrc.(LOCALE) files
> > in the default GTK+ distribution. It is mostly a 
> > matter of coming up with the files and doing a little bit of 
> > automake work to get them installed in $(prefix)/etc/gtk/.
> > If you want to do this, go ahead, but please submit your
> > changes as a patch.
> 
> Yes, it is probably a right way doing it and I tried that route.
> 
>  I made gtkrc.ru files for each of the themes and placed them in
> $(prefix)/share/themes/*/gtk/ directories. It did not change
> anything.  ****  Is it a bug? ****

Well, depends on your definition of bug. The rc.$LANG feature
only takes effects for GTK+'s default rec files and files
specified with gtk_rc_add_default_file(). There is some argument
to be made that it should apply to all RC files loaded
via gtk_rc_parse() or an include directive.

On the other hand, I think, in general, themes should not
specify fonts, since the choice of fonts is locale-dependent,
machine-dependent (in some cases), resolution dependent,
and eyesight dependent. 
 
> The same goes for GNOME's gtkrc, whicjh is in $(prefix)/share/ directory.
> $(prefix)/share/gtkrc.ru had no effect.

That should have worked, since gnome-libs does
use gtk_rc_add_default_file()...

                                        Owen