On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 21:27 -0500, John Lowell wrote: > I'm having some difficulty getting an answer to a question I've raised > here, on the forums and elsewhere regarding how a little application > like gtk-theme-switch or gtk-chtheme gets the listing of fonts it > offers a user when modifying gtk2 applications, balsa for example. The > user is shown a standard list, similar if not identical to the list > firefox or thunderbird shows under "preferences -> fonts". What file > determines the content of a list of this kind? I'd dearly love to have > an answer to this question but it would seem that it stumps everyone > I've asked. Certainly something determines the content of the list > provided, but what? > > jlowell
well the good thing about open source is that you can read the source and find out for yourself :-) In a less facetious mood, I'd say try running gtk-theme-switch with strace and see what files it opens something like strace -eopen -ostrace.out gtk-theme-switch then peruse strace.out for a list of files opened by gtk-theme-switch > -- [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
