gnucash over X font problem

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting andy thomas <andy at netstat-a.net>:

> Yes, that's right. I've since read that gnucash 1.8 uses gtk2 which in
> turn uses its own font 'engine' (meaning server?) whereas earlier versions
> used gtk1. It so happens that the systems on which I ran gnucash remotely
> before had gtk1 installed but not gtk2. So it looks as if gnucash 1.8
> breaks the traditional X-windows model by requiring gtk2 be installed on
> the remote system. This is a problem - it's a fair bit of work to install
> gtk on, say, a system running Digital UNIX and really defeats the whole idea
> of X-Windows client/server operation.

Well, you've read wrong.  GnuCash 1.8 is still a gnome-1.4 app; it does not use
gtk2.  So your analysis is incorrect.

> It's not a real disaster - I could try re-installing gnucash 1.6 and
> using that when I'm out & about and version 1.8 when I'm in the office. Or
> use it as an excuse to finally buy myself a laptop ;-)

Honestly, I don't know what gnucash-1.8 is doing differently than gnucash-1.6;
the X/Gnome/Gtk dependencies are EXACTLY THE SAME.  This means it's a
difference in the dependency provided by SuSE, not a difference in the version
of gnucash or how it uses those dependencies.  I.E., this is something that
SuSE 9.1 does vs. SuSE 8.2 -- it has nothing to do with gnucash 1.8.

If you installed SuSE 8.2 and then hand-compiled GnuCash 1.8 I bet you it would
work just fine..  But I don't suggest going through that kind of hell.  OTOH I
DO suggest sticking with 1.8, 1.6 is OOOLLLLDDDD and not supported.

> cheers,
> 
> Andy

-derek

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