#600594 gitk should recommend the font it wants to use

Package:
gitk
Source:
git
Submitter:
Marc Haber
Date:
2010-10-19 11:57:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#600594#5
Date:
2010-10-18 13:15:05 UTC
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Hi,

I have only the bare minimum of fonts installed on my system. This
causes gitk to offer only an even smaller selection of fonts, most of
which resolve to a rather ugly monospaced fonts.

I don't know whether this is a result of gitk's rather archaic user
interface or a real result of fonts missing, but the gitk package
should probably recommend the fonts packages that it is able to use.

Greetings
Marc
#600594#10
Date:
2010-10-19 00:33:14 UTC
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Hi Marc,

Marc Haber wrote:

I'm guessing this is a combination of two problems:

 1. Debian (and hence gitk) uses tk 8.4 by default, which unfortunately
    does not support freetype/fontconfig.  You can work around this by
    installing tk from experimental or installing tk8.5 and updating
    the "wish" alternative.

 2. gitk uses Helvetica and Courier instead of sans and monospace as
    it should.  This is bug 466471 (thanks for the reminder!).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan
#600594#15
Date:
2010-10-19 11:53:02 UTC
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Hi,

it does, thanks.

Greetings
Marc