On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 00:37 +0200, guenther wrote: > > I've just got Evo 1.5.93 running on Slackware - the only issue being > > that the font size for the message list and folder list is a little on > > the large size. Is there anywhere I can change this within Evolution? (I > > assume it's a global Gnome setting and for some reason Evo under > > Slackware isn't picking the setting up) > > Run 'gnome-font-properties' from a terminal. The Application Font > setting does control those font sizes as well.
No luck I'm afraid - I'd already tried that before you suggested it! Setting the font size using that utility doesn't affect the font size as used by Evolution. I had a hard disk lying around with Redhat 9 and Evo 1.4 still on it, so just tried that and it does work there - so it looks like it's something specific to the slackware environment. Question is, by what process does Evo pick up what font to use? 'gnome-font-properties' seems to be setting the info I request OK, as it picks up the changes next time that I run it - it's just that Evo isn't picking up those changes for some reason. > I believe if you set it to use "the same fonts as other applications" > your mail fonts will use the very same large fonts as you are seeing for > the lists currently. Yep, that seems to be the case. Actually it seems a strange design that you can override the mail font in Evo's preferences, but not the fonts used for anything else :-( > Yay! for recovering unfinished messages. :) uh huh, that is nice :) > > Is Slackware ever likely to be officially supported by the way? I > > haven't run it for about ten years, but after only an hour or so I'm > > already glad that I ditched Redhat! > > By "officially supported" you mean packages built by Ximian? Unlikely, > although I am by no means entitled to judge here. Yep. It's a server that I've put Slackware on to in place of Redhat; makes more sense in terms of efficiency (I'd just been lazy about getting round to it!). I run Evo from the server via a remote display (which does happen to be Redhat 9 currently, but could do with upgrading that - I don't fancy Fedora, so Slackware might end up on there too). Just seems a shame that Ximian don't either have a complete Evo package for slackware, or at least a page on the web site detailing what bits are needed to get Evo to work (same for the other common Linux distros) cheers, Jules _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
