From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11623 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2002 01:17:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11536 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2002 01:17:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2002 01:17:22 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1Q1HL714019 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:16:59 -0800 Received: from stravinsky (stravinsky.apple.com [17.202.41.127]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1Q1HLv11761; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:17:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:17:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [RFA] Change Windows menu font. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: Ian Roxborough , To: Keith Seitz From: Syd Polk In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <95361016-2A56-11D6-9F3D-000A27917828@bayarea.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) X-SW-Source: 2002-q1/txt/msg00166.txt.bz2 On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 04:37 , Keith Seitz wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Ian Roxborough wrote: > >> + >> + # The menu font used to be set via the "windows-menu" >> + # font family, however this seems to have been deprecated >> + # for Tcl/Tk version 8.3, so we hard code it instead. >> + define_font global/menu -family {MS Sans Serif} -size 8 > > For the record, there were several fonts that Ian Lance Taylor added to > our copy of Tk8.0 which propagated the Window's Display Control Panel > settings for fonts. These were called "windows-menu", "windows-status", > and a few others. > > If you run Insight 5.1 and use the Display Control Panel to alter the > menu > font for your desktop, Insight will change. CVS, however, will not, > since > scriptics did not do anything with Ian's patches. As a result, using the > Display Control Panel to alter fonts will do nothing. > > I wish scriptics hadn't dropped the ball on this, since it really > makes a > huge difference for the user... I was the developer of Windows Font Menu stuff and one of the people in the Font system itself. We had plans for this while Tcl/Tk was at Sun. I left to go to Cygnus, and nobody else picked up the ball and ran with it. Then Scriptics spun off and spent most of their time doing something other than Tk. Then Scriptics was bought by Interwoven, and, well.... > > Keith > > Syd Polk jazzman@bayarea.net http://www.bayarea.net/~jazzman "Let the music be your light." -- Dave Edwards, KUHF-FM, 1982