Bug 103681

Summary:	media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r2 patches caused font problems in xitk UI
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	PL Hayes <plh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description PL Hayes 2005-08-25 03:02:55 UTC

Previously, the text didn't fit in the xine config UI textboxes properly, so I
know the patches were well meant - but now the text is far too small and the
tops of the characters in tooltips are cut off. 

BTW: I've tried specifying different fonts in an xitkrc but nothing changes.
Maybe I didn't get the format right but it seems from a cursory look at the code
that the fonts may be hard coded anyway (certainly the tooltip font is).

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-02 16:06:15 UTC

I'll have a look, the patch were contributions took from freshports and seemed 
to avoid a couple of problems.. 
 
Fonts are indeed hardcoded, patches to fix that are welcome, but since now my 
priorities were on stability :)

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-17 17:57:40 UTC

I'm waiting for next upstream release, I'd rather leave it as it's now until a better fix can be figured out.

Comment 3 PL Hayes 2006-06-24 04:52:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm waiting for next upstream release, I'd rather leave it as it's now until a
> better fix can be figured out.

That would be fine if it did actually fix something but I cannot find any evidence that it does and in that case, it's unlikely anyone's ever going to be trying to figure out a better fix. It certainly doesn't fix anything for me - on the contrary, it screws the interface up worse than it ever was (and that's saying something ;-).

You mention a crash in your post to xine-devel* and also that you applied several patches from Alex Stewart / freshrpms. But surely it's not very likely to have been this 070_all_freshrpms-xftfontsize.patch that fixed the crash (if it was in fact fixed by any of those patches)? I think it should be removed unless there is some solid evidence that it does more good than harm.

* http://itdp.de/~itdp/html/Xine-devel/2005-08/msg00027.html