OS X & .gtkrc-2.0.gnucash

[David Reiser]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:27 PM, John Ralls wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:28 PM, David Reiser wrote:
>>
>> GnuCash's default font is gnome's application font. That font info  
>> is stored in:
>> ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml
>>
>> It is generally set by the Appearance applet in gnome-control-center.
>>
>> Maybe someday I'll take a look to see how gnumeric finally  
>> implemented font choices in itself rather than depending on gnome.  
>> Especially with the problems gnome-settings-daemon has on the mac  
>> these days, it's really a pain to have to use control center to  
>> change the application font.
>
> Gconf isn't creating a desktop subdir when it's run from  
> Gnucash.app. It creates a bunch of %gconf.xml files in the apps  
> tree, but they seem to be empty.
>
> Is there a way to force Gconf to create the desktop tree?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Not that I know of. I'm not certain, but I think gconf is expecting  
other parts of gnome to create the leaves.

But don't consider my answer in any way authoritative -- I just pick  
up bits and pieces about gnome as I thrash to make it behave.

Dave
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