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Bug 171024 - 2.x Text tool doesn't remember last font from last session
2.x Text tool doesn't remember last font from last session
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165078
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Tools
2.2.x
Other All
: Normal trivial
: 2.4
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-20 19:26 UTC by Kelly Price
Modified: 2008-01-15 12:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Kelly Price 2005-03-20 19:26:23 UTC 
Version details: Using KDE instead of Gnome
Distribution/Version: Gentoo current

1. Start Gimp, create a new document.  Choose the text tool and select a
different font other than the default ("Sans")
2. Write anything.
3. Exit and restart Gimp.
4. Create a new document and choose the text tool again.  It defaults back to
Sans instead of retaining the last one in early versions of 2.0 gimp.
Comment 1 Kelly Price 2005-03-21 21:11:00 UTC 
Severity changed back to normal as I constantly use the text tool while creating
web comics.
Comment 2 Michael Natterer 2005-03-21 21:43:20 UTC 
If you want a fast fix of this bug, provide a patch! Undoing the severity
setting of the maintainers isn't exactly a good way to make them fix
the problem.
Comment 3 Sven Neumann 2005-03-21 22:40:10 UTC 
As a workaround, set "default-font" from your gimprc.
Comment 4 Michael Natterer 2005-03-24 23:35:06 UTC 
That's the wrong workaround. The right one is to add

(global-font no)

to ~/.gimp-2.2/gimprc

the reason for this bug is that the global values are taken from
devicerc (they are the values of the core pointer) and the font
is not saved in devicerc.

Above setting will make the text options remember the font locally.

This bug is not fixable without changing the devicerc file format
and can't be fixed in 2.2.

Perhaps we should make "global-brush" to default to FALSE in the
2.2 branch.
Comment 5 Sven Neumann 2005-03-24 23:38:40 UTC 
Yeah, let's change the default for "global-font". There's only one tool using it
anyway.
Comment 6 Sven Neumann 2005-03-31 11:49:58 UTC 
Changing "global-font" to FALSE decouples the font dialog from the text tool.
That makes things worse so it is unfortunately not an option.
Comment 7 Kelly Price 2005-03-31 19:25:43 UTC 
The work-around does work on global-font in gimprc.  Maybe forceing a read on
the locally stored font info instead of saying "We already got it from
devicerc..." may help.
Comment 8 Michael Natterer 2005-04-09 15:10:14 UTC 
Fixed in 2.2, setting milestone to 2.4

2005-04-09  Michael Natterer  <mitch@gimp.org>

	* app/tools/gimp-tools.c (gimp_tools_register): manually hardwire
	the global font and the text option's font together. Makes the
	globally selected font persistant and fixes bug #171024.
Comment 9 Michael Natterer 2005-04-12 14:19:07 UTC 
Bug #165078 shows that this problem occurs for other tool options
as well when devicerc saving is disabled.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165078 ***