On 21/11/05, Felix Miata
Kevanf1 wrote:
Guys I don't go with all this business of having to set up the toolbar fonts through Gnome (Control Center). What if I choose not to have Gnome installed due to space reasons?
Four choices: 1-Be happy/live with the Firefox UI defaults 2-Install a theme with the smaller or larger fonts you want 3-Install only the Gnome components required to control fonts, gnome-control-center and its deps 4-Customize with CSS
The author of this particular book also mentions using the Gnome (Gtk) settings but I think he hints at other ways too. He also mentions a way of doing this in KDE that will be implemented in the near future.
That's probably an optional build configuration that substitutes the QT (aka KDE) toolkit for GTK2. AFAIK, it remains experimental.
Again though, if I choose not to have the two heavy weight desktops there must be another way of doing it. I'm leaning towards hacking the 'chrome' files in some way. Apparently it can be done cleanly.
CSS is a perfectly capable way of doing it. It just isn't simple for a CSS novice, unlike using the GTK2 control center.
Besides your book there are a number of resources on the web where help in customizing Mozilla apps are available, including: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html http://forums.mozillazine.org/ http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/ irc://moznet/#firefox irc://moznet/#mozillazine irc://moznet/#css --
Hey, nice one Felix :-) Thank you. That was going to be my next step, a web search for Firefox config help pages. You've saved me a bit of time and I'm grateful for it. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR