[CALUG] Thunderbird's looks are ugly on F9

Rajiv Gunja opn.src.rocks at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 21:45:39 EDT 2008


If you are on KDE, I would suggest going into the control panel and changing
the fonts for your desktop. If this is happening only for Mozilla and not
other applications, then it could be a bug or some weidness in your Desktop
resolution.

-GGR

2008/7/14 Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com>:

> For those with a serious attachment to X or how the desktop works:
>
> Mozilla Firefox 3 looks great on F9.
>
> However;
>
> I installed Thunderbird, and Seamonkey  ( combo of mozilla and emailer).
> Did it using the rpm from Fedora site/DVD pkg.
>
> Both Look like crap.
> Both are Mozilla related.
>
>
> Small text in menu's and along icons etc...
> icons look crappy.
>
>
> I uninstalled Thunderbird and reinstalled- and there was no difference.
> Did multiple googles and even an Alta Vista, as well
> as  release notes and FAQ's on fedora. Could find nothing mentioned.
> So it must be my magic fingers...
>
>
> I think it's more than a text size problem but ......
> Some of the supplied fonts were installed at X installation.
> So if there's one font package I should look for, or some other
> font/icon /drawing handler I need to install ??  It just seems
> odd that Mozilla 3 looks great, so I figure there's some "hook"
> missing somewhere....
>
>
> Any one with an idea how to fix it ?
>
>
> thx,
>
> Walt........
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