Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Camaleón wrote:
...
> But in my case, restarting gnome-shell solves the issue so maybe is that 
> you're facing a different problem then :-?

  yes, i'm still digging into it.  going to
be delayed for a while now.  if i figure it
out i'll post a fix.


>>   the gnome-panel up above is missing the word
>> "Activities" completely, to the right a little it has the icon for the
>> terminal "T  m  al", the clock in the center shows "7" and the rightmost
>> part says "m".
>> 
>>   to get it to display correctly i have to again
>> click the accessibility icon (that is not displayed until i hover over
>> it) and clicking "L rg  T xt" and then again clicking "Large Text" (to
>> turn it back to normal font).  then all is well again.
>
> As you're using sid, check for any package update, if any. 

  everything gnomish, xish, is up to date.


> What VGA driver are you using? Although you firstly thought there is no 
> relation between this and your UI problems, true is that there can be :-) 
> (intel cards use to work smoothly with gnome-shell while ati/nvidia and 
> the closed source drivers are more problematic, specially for nvidia), so 
> if you have the chance and aren't afraid of messing up your system you 
> can try to "swap" the current VGA driver (meaning, if using open source 
> drivers load the closed one or viceversa).

  the xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.18.0-2   trying to switch
to intel site downloaded version.  too old...  skip for now.


>>   if i knew how to automatically include these
>> steps in the desktop startup i could try that, but i'm not a gnome
>> wizard.
>
> I can't imagine a bypass for this, but you can open a bug report so the 
> issue can be closely -and properly- tracked.

  no bug is worth being filed for a cosmetic
item like this.  it mostly works.  looking at
bug tracker for both debian and gnome site looks
like they are swamped with reports.  sending bug
upstream to be ignored makes more work for 
everyone.  if i get a patch or fix then i can
at least then file something useful for others 
who might have similar problem to find.

  was hoping someone who was familiar with gnome
internals could point me to code and i think by
what you've said i may figure something out.  i'm 
finding places to alter and test the result as 
soon as i can get the build environment set up.
i've gone too far ahead for the moment.

  thank you for your replies,


  songbird