[Evolution] setting font size in message list / folder list? (1.5.93 / Slackware)

[Jules Richardson]

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