Re: [gnome-core] bundle-gnome-2.6.0-2

[Edward P L. <ed...@lu...>]

Thank you for your quick response.  If I had waited a bit before 
sending the email, I probably would never have sent it, since 
everything works now.  I am not sure why - this is a mystery I need to 
crack since a lot of people report versions of the problem and the Fink 
Gnome team does not have time to track it down.  There are some missing 
dependencies that seem to affect some installations but not others.  No 
doubt there are issues with Apple's X server and other software that 
come into play as well.

I was not able to download msttcorefonts - none of the mirrors seem to 
work, so I would have built the .cab tool next (to dismantle the font 
installer) except that somehow I managed to make everything work.  I 
never installed applesystemfonts.

I did have the Microsoft fonts installed (my computer is too new to 
have anything removed yet) and had earlier done the trick with fondu to 
create a working font directory under /sw/lib/X11/fonts, created the 
fonts.dir and fonts.scale files, added it to the font path, deleted all 
the various preference directories in ~, basically, everything I knew 
about X11 without actually reading the Gnome sources.

This did not work with either gnome or the gtk application I had 
installed (ethereal).  I removed all the packages (but did not delete 
the font directory) and reinstalled everything from source.  THAT 
worked - I think there must be a piece of the build process that looks 
for directories in /sw/lib/X11/fonts and sets up application defaults.  
Frankly, I don't know, and will probably investigate this so I can make 
an intelligent contribution to the project in the future.

Another thing I did was to build Gnome in the sequence listed in the 
www.gnome.org release notes rather than relying on any Fink bundles.  
Whether or not this made a difference I don't know.  I ran into the 
problem with the segmentation fault while building Nautilus, but solved 
that by installing Fink Perl.

The gnome desktop looks very beautiful, and seems to work very well.  I 
appreciate your efforts and the work of the rest of the Fink team, and 
hope that I can contribute something soon.  I do a lot of SNMP related 
stuff and if I can get some tools working I will contact the project 
leaders for information on how to get involved.

Thank you,
Ed

On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Edward P Luwish wrote:
>> The "missing Verdana" font problem seems to be very widespread (it 
>> affected me), enough so, if you have a solution, it should be 
>> included in the Fink FAQ.  (for example, is there a way to configure 
>> a different default font, such as LucidaGrande or another Apple core 
>> font, using gconftool-2?)
>> My libraries are all linked against Apple's truetype (there are no 
>> freetype Fink packages installed) and the problem occurred regardless 
>> of whether I installed the binary (from a clean Fink installation) or 
>> built from source.
>> Bottom line: can't use any gnome package, nor even ethereal (which is 
>> built against gtk+2, not any gnome components).
>
> Did you try to install the msttcorefonts package? It has verdana 
> fonts. Also, Internet Explorer comes with Verdana. So if you have IE 
> (or even if you trashed it but left the fonts that it installed in 
> /Library/Fonts) and install the applesystemfonts package, X11-using 
> applications should see Verdana.
>
> -- 
> Martin
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