Re: [Nautilus-list] fonts on sidebar's tabs problem solved

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro eazel com>]

Vlad,

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.  They are very useful.

We have bugs for a few of the issues that you have brought up.  For
those that their is not ill make sure that there are bugs filed (ie,
file them myself if needed) and make sure you are on the cc line so I
can ask you stuff.

-re

Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ramiro Estrugo wrote:
> 
> > Ramiro Estrugo wrote:
> > >
> > > This is all true of 1.0.
> >
> > Ok, I lied.  Its supposed to work in 1.0 as well.
> 
>  I should say that if /usr/share/nautilus/fonts/urw is absent and if helvetica
> (or probably even if urw-helvetica) is absent in fontpath, Nau will crash at
> startup (at least 2 persons reported that, and they seem to have such setup).
> For some reason Nau looks for its own URW fonts first, and failing to find
> ones, tries to use ones in fontpath.
> 
>  There is a little problem: no helvetica Type1 fonts are not shipped with
> XFree, though RedHat since RH6.2 ships URW fonts under normal names (e.g.
> Helvetica instead of Nimbus SansL) and puts them in X fontpath by default.
> 
> But anyway, Nau should start searching in X font path first IMO, at least if
> locale's charset is different from iso8859-1.
> 
> > Can you please file a bug for the issue ?  Thanks.
> >
> > >
> > > Already in the CVS HEAD of Nautilus this works much better.  We use the
> > > font server's configuration to populate the font choices.
> > >
> > > Can you elaborate a bit on how "scanning for fonts with locale-specific
> > > encoding first" should work ?
> > >
> > > -re
> > >
> 
>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad
>