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Gaim 2.0.0beta3.1 fonts are really tiny, and can't be changed

Bug #64415 reported by Dave Rolsky
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gaim (Ubuntu)
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The fonts are making my eyes bleed. Help me, Ubuntu (Wo)Man, help!

Seriously, as of my latest install of Edgy (with whatever packages came out earlier today), gaim is using really tiny fonts for displaying conversations, both with IRC and AIM. With AIM, I can increase _my_ text by messing with the conversation font size, but I can't do squat about the IRC text or incoming AIM text. It's horrible.

I tried messing with the font sizes in the gnome control center (under Fonts), and I tried tweaking the ~/.gaim/prefs.xml file (there are some font-related entries) but to no avail.

I think this used be to tweakable with the extended prefs plugin, but it looks like that no longer works with Gaim 2. Oh the pain.

Tags: edgy gaim
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Luke Schierer (lschiere) wrote :

look at the gtkrc plugin, included with that version of gaim. at least I think it made that beta. if not, look at writing a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 along the lines of gaim.sf.net/gtkrc-2.0

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Dave Rolsky (autarch) wrote : Re: [Bug 64415] Re: Gaim 2.0.0beta3.1 fonts are really tiny, and can't be changed

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Luke Schierer wrote:

> look at the gtkrc plugin, included with that version of gaim. at least
> I think it made that beta. if not, look at writing a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 along
> the lines of gaim.sf.net/gtkrc-2.0

Ah, that did the trick. Here's what I stuck in the gtkrc-2.0 file:

style "imhtml-fix"
{
     font_name = "Sans 10"
}

# Set the widget style for the conversation entry box
widget "*gaim_gtkconv_entry" style "imhtml-fix"
# Set the widget style for the conversation
widget "*gaim_gtkconv_imhtml" style "imhtml-fix"
# Set the widget style for the log viewer
widget "*gaim_gtklog_imhtml" style "imhtml-fix"

# Set the widget style for IMHtml input widgets in request dialogs
widget "*gaim_gtkrequest_imhtml" style "imhtml-fix"
# Set the widget style for IMHtml widgets in notify dialogs
widget "*gaim_gtknotify_imhtml" style "imhtml-fix"

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote :

The new version will fix this: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/sean/blog/font-sizes

Changed in gaim:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That upload fixes the issue:

 gaim (1:2.0.0+beta5-1ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * Sync with Debian
   * debian/control:
     - Build-Depends on libxext-dev, liblaunchpad-integration-dev, intltool
     - don't Build-Depends on libavahi-compat-howl-dev
   * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch,
     debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
     - launchpad integration patches.
   * debian/patches/04_let_crasher_for_apport.patch:
     - don't catch crashes, apport does that.
     - fixes apport having broken backtraces for gaim
   * debian/patches/99_default_to_irc_ubuntu_com.patch:
     - set default irc server to irc.ubuntu.com
   * debian/prefs.xml:
     - set the notify by default (Ubuntu: #13389)
   * debian/rules
     - Add translation domain to desktop file.
     - call intltool-update to build the .pot

Changed in gaim:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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