[Lazarus] Synedit: background colours and f(o)nts

[zeljko]

On Monday 20 of February 2012 21:58:26 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> zeljko at holobit.net wrote:
> > Quoting Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk>:
> >> Martin wrote:
> >>> On 20/02/2012 09:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> >>>> In the same program (running on Linux), the Synedit font appears to
> >>>> force itself to a generic Sans at runtime, irrespective of what is
> >>>> actually selected (e.g. Monospace). Again, this is OK up to around
> >>>> 0.9.26.
> >>> 
> >>> No idea...  You set the font via the object inspector?
> >> 
> >> Yes.
> >> 
> >>> If you put a label in with the same font. does that work?
> >> 
> >> Yes.
> >> 
> >>> Have you tried other fonts?
> >> 
> >> Yes, it's a general problem.
> >> 
> >>> Are they in that name-15-*-* format ?
> >> 
> >> That was available in gtk1, but appears to not be in gtk2 or Qt's font
> >> dialog (although it would be nice to have it as an option).
> > 
> > Since last week trunk gtk2 is fixed and it uses pango fonts everywhere.
> > Fonts are consistent now (at least with qt under linux).
> > 0.9.30.XX will stay as it is, don't think that it will be merged there.
> 
> Thanks, trunk with 2.7.1 compiling for gtk2 now looks OK. i can live
> with that :-)

Also, note that it's not perfect because we still support gtk2-2.8.
With post 1.0 we will move minimum gtk2 requirement to 2.10 or 2.16 ...

zeljko

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