Hi All, I have some more information about this item and a fix.
A default ubuntu install (I'm using edgy in this example) does not install gtk1.2 by default. When an application is added (say xmms) that is dependant on gtk1.2, the libgtk1.2-common package gets installed which provides the system defaults http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/misc/libgtk1.2-common Problems with the defaults are #1 it uses a font which looks terrible without anti-alising, and is too big #2 the default style belongs in the 1980's althought most gtk apps have migrated to gtk2 by now, there's quite a few commercial apps that use gtk1.2 still - and why do we want commercial apps to look so ordinary??? -- default gtk+1.2 font does not render umlauts etc. correctly https://launchpad.net/bugs/59936 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
