[Pidgin] #3061: Font Controls Inconsistent and Unclear + Proposal for Revision

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#3061: Font Controls Inconsistent and Unclear + Proposal for Revision
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  Reporter:  irv           |       Owner:                 
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new            
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  Patches welcome
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.1.1          
Resolution:                |    Keywords:                 
   Pending:  0             |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * milestone:  => Patches welcome

Comment:

 Windows *does* provide system level font settings, most people just never
 mess with them because Windows doesn't encourage you to do so and most
 applications allow you to override their font settings specifically (well
 at least in the realm of IM applications if not all applications). I think
 it is this expectation that is causing some of your confusion and some of
 your requests. pidgin (and well-behaved linux applications in general)
 support per-application font settings but don't expose such settings
 themselves. Generally, there are system-wide (or more accurately toolkit-
 wide) settings and the same system can be used to configure per-
 application, per-widget, etc. settings. It is this difference that
 contributes to the types and locations of options that pidgin presents in
 the interface.

 Personally, I think more people should know how to modify their system
 configuration settings and the lack of useful GTK+ theme configuration
 utilities is a problem. The Gnome and KDE people have solved this
 configuration issue for the most part for people who use those
 environments, those people on linux who don't and those people on Windows
 unfortunately have not had the same attention paid to them.

 I'm setting this ticket to the 'Patches welcome' milestone hoping that
 someone who wants to make this better will come up with something that can
 work and will fit with both your requests and the pidgin idea of what
 belongs and what doesn't. I don't have much more to add to this myself
 unfortunately.

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