Re: Prima 1.08 font problems

From: Dmitry Karasik <dmitry_at_karasik.eu.org>
Date: 25 Nov 2002 20:13:56 +0100
To: prima_at_prima.eu.org

        Hi Martin!

On 25 Nov 02 at 17:34, "Martin" (Martin Walter) wrote:

I plan to make a large change in font pickup algorithm.
It should , in theory, fix these problems. My assumptions
it must take no longer than one month. As for the immediate
solution, try to use xfontsel program, select a font and
copy it to .Xdefaults. Please remember though, that it is a bug,
and when fixed, you wouldn't need these patches.

/Dmitry

 Martin> Hi Dmitry, the version currently in CVS fixes the problem I had
 Martin> with the editor widget, thanks! :-) However, most other widgets I
 Martin> tried still have the same problem. Is this recent change you made
 Martin> a work in progress which has to be done on each widget?

 Martin> For example, in the fonts dialog used in examples/editor.pl... :

 Martin> - the edit fields where the currently selected font's name and
 Martin> size are displayed still aren't large enough and cut the top few
 Martin> pixels, same applies to the "encoding" combobox.

 Martin> - the selection bar of the entry selected by default in the font
 Martin> list is perfect now. However when you move it to select another
 Martin> entry, there's the problem again that the selection bar does not
 Martin> cover all of the text, i.e. is a bit smaller instead of larger
 Martin> than the font.

 Martin> I've also tried putting the Prima.font line you gave me into my
 Martin> ~/.Xdefaults , where it's the only "font"-related
 Martin> setting. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any effect at all
 Martin> here. The Prima example programs still use Helvetica. This seems
 Martin> to be independend of which window manager I use and which "default
 Martin> application font" one can specify in KDE for example.

 Martin> Any ideas what the cause for this could be?

 Martin> Regards, Martin

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Sincerely,
	Dmitry
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