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Bug 164822 - in gdm themes, no font is specified for username/psswd entry field
in gdm themes, no font is specified for username/psswd entry field
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.6.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-21 13:43 UTC by Alexander Kirillov
Modified: 2005-02-16 20:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8

Attachments
patch for happygnome theme (391 bytes, patch)
2005-01-26 02:36 UTC, Alexander Kirillov 		none Details | Review
patch for happygnome-list theme (391 bytes, patch)
2005-01-26 02:37 UTC, Alexander Kirillov 		none Details | Review
patch for circles theme (385 bytes, patch)
2005-01-26 02:38 UTC, Alexander Kirillov 		none Details | Review

Description Alexander Kirillov 2005-01-21 13:43:08 UTC 
In the standard gdm themes (circles, happy-gnome) provided with gdm, no font is
specified for the username/psswd entry field. As a result, the default gtk theme
font is used --- which in my experience, is always too small (if your display is
1024x768 or larger) and very different form the SANS font used for everything
else in the login screen.

Suggestion: add this line:		
<normal color="#000000" font="Sans Bold 12"/>

to the corresponding item ( <item type="entry" id="user-pw-entry"> ) in *.xml
files. 

It looks much better this way...
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2005-01-25 21:28:10 UTC 
Could you provide a patch?
Comment 2 Alexander Kirillov 2005-01-26 02:36:26 UTC 
Created attachment 36536 [details] [review]
patch for happygnome theme
Comment 3 Alexander Kirillov 2005-01-26 02:37:27 UTC 
Created attachment 36537 [details] [review]
patch for happygnome-list theme
Comment 4 Alexander Kirillov 2005-01-26 02:38:15 UTC 
Created attachment 36538 [details] [review]
patch for circles theme
Comment 5 bill.haneman 2005-02-15 12:35:32 UTC 
does this change override the font size specified by the Large Print gdm theme?
 Or HighContrastInverseLargePrint?  If so , the patch should not go in as-is.
It's OK to specify a font, but not a font size (in the gdm theme).
Comment 6 Alexander Kirillov 2005-02-15 20:44:50 UTC 
These patches only change font for individual themes (in this case, circles,
happygnome, happygnome-list), not the default for all themes. Thus - AFAIK -
other themes, such as LargePrint, should not be affected. 

And I am not ure I understand this:
"It's OK to specify a font, but not a font size (in the gdm theme)"

Each GDM theme I have seen explicitly specifies font size for each of the
labels/items - except for this one field (username/password entry).
Comment 7 bill.haneman 2005-02-16 10:45:24 UTC 
Since all the gdm themes are specifying their own fonts using this patch, as you
say if LargePrint etc. is not affected, then I have no other concerns about the
patch.
Comment 8 Brian Cameron 2005-02-16 17:03:38 UTC 
Fixed in CVS head.
Comment 9 Kjartan Maraas 2005-02-16 18:55:33 UTC 
One thing I've noticed is that gdm uses a much smaller font when I run it using
gdmflexiserver even though it's using the same theme as the standard Fedora Core
3 GDM, is this related to this bug?
Comment 10 Brian Cameron 2005-02-16 20:42:41 UTC 
I don't know, could you test?