[Pan-users] Re: Menu fonts

[Duncan]

Spammy_Davis posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:24:55 -0400:

> Hey all,
> 
>    I've been using Pan for a few weeks now, and I'm impressed. Certainly
> the best binary newsreader for Linux I've tried. 
> 
>    One problem I'm having is with the menu and dialog font size.
> They're too small. The group and suject pane fonts are adjustable, but I
> can't find anything about the other fonts. I'm using KDE 3.2.2, but Pan
> doesn't seem to respond to the KDE settings. Is there a way to adjust
> these fonts?  

PAN isn't using the KDE settings because it's a GTK+ app, not a KDE app.
You need to adjust the GTK+ font settings.

The easiest way to do this, if you have Gnome installed, is to set the
fonts there.  If you don't, it's possible to do it by hand by editing the
text config files, but that can be a long and frustrating process, if you
can't google the info you need to make the changes you want.  I know, as
while I've used Gnome to set fonts, I had to edit the text files for
certain color attributes, since unlike KDE with its colors setting
dialog, the only way Gnome has for changing those is to change everything
at once, using a theme.   

That BTW is emblematic of the differing philosophies of Gnome and KDE, and
why I prefer KDE.  If it's possible to make it configurable, KDE probably
has, and has it in its GUI settings dialogs somewhere.  That's the
power-user response.  Gnome OTOH prefers to target the simpletons that get
confused by to many options, and has omitted configuration options for a
lot of stuff, forcing those who want to change it to go diving thru text
config files.  That's fine, in fact, preferred, for text-based apps, but
somehow, I can't quite understand people that would go to the work of
creating a GUI, and not allow one to configure even COLORS using the GUI! 
If I'm using a GUI, I'd like to be able to configure it within the GUI!

Of course, GTK isn't Gnome, just as QT isn't KDE.  However, one can
still configure certain aspects of many GTK app's operation with Gnome.

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