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Bug 586980 - We should be able to choose the font for chat windows
We should be able to choose the font for chat windows
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
2.27.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 606417 622873 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-25 20:14 UTC by Olivier Guéry
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Olivier Guéry 2009-06-25 20:14:36 UTC 
I hope this is a chat request and not a preference one.

Chatting is not the same that writing code or reading the title of a tab. We should be able to choose the font for the chat windows in the preferences.
My system is setup for using small font for application, but I allways use bigger fonts in chat windows.

Cheers,
Olivier.
Comment 1 Omer Akram 2010-02-16 07:48:29 UTC 
this is a duplicate of bug606417
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-02-16 13:44:28 UTC 
*** Bug 606417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 nomnex 2010-04-19 06:25:59 UTC 
unfortunately for me, it is a necessity. I can't read too well small fonts on screen. Font configuration (size, type) is a standard on all the GUI of the applications. I end up very near of the screen to converse. thanks
Comment 4 Omer Akram 2010-05-01 15:52:48 UTC 
also reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/504771
Comment 5 Miro Hadzhiev (Хаджиев) 2010-06-02 12:34:13 UTC 
I reckon this as a necessity for me, too.
I cannot read fonts which are smaller than 10 points.
Comment 6 Omer Akram 2010-06-27 11:40:27 UTC 
*** Bug 622873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Richard Schwarting 2011-05-26 14:34:55 UTC 
In GNOME 3.0, Empathy doesn't even seem to respect the document_font_name or font_name size I set (/desktop/gnome/interface).  Text is way larger than I'm comfortable with now.  Is there any way to modify font size in Empathy now?
Comment 8 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-05-27 06:50:24 UTC 
It's in dconf now: document-font-name on org.gnome.desktop.interface.
Comment 9 nomnex 2011-05-27 07:20:35 UTC 
that's very useful for LXDE, XCFE DE users.

alternative?
Comment 10 Jonathan Ballet 2011-12-13 09:29:25 UTC 
Could it be possible for the font just to follow all the other fonts size on the system?
I know empathy uses themes and maybe you can change the size of the font within the theme, but that's the only GTK application on my system which doesn't follow the default font size from GTK, or doesn't allow to override it...
Comment 11 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:34:30 UTC 
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