[Geany-Users] Smaller fonts in file tabs?

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Fri May 3 14:09:35 UTC 2019


On 2019-05-03 12:28 a.m., Brent Roman wrote:
> Lex,
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> Sorry about the missing info.
> 
> The "new" version is Geany 1.33 and, it is, as you suspected, linked 
> with gtk-3,
> while the "old" version is Geany 1.29, linked with gtk-2.
> The OS is Debian "buster" and "stretch", respectively.
> 
> I absolutely agree with your rant about the popular "kiddy phone" look.
> 
> Could one simply copy the .css file from the 1.29 version to the 1.33 
> version to restore the old version's layout?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 

You could build Geany from source[0]. The default options will build 
GTK+ 2 I believe.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

[0]: https://www.geany.org/manual/index.html#installation

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>> Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 19:27:42 -0700
>> From: Brent Roman <genosensor at gmail.com>
>> To: users at lists.geany.org
>> Subject: [Geany-Users] Smaller fonts in file tabs?
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>> Hi,
>>
>> The 1.2 series had much smaller fonts by default for labels that appear
>> above the editor and file selector panes and to the left of the messages
>> area than the 1.3 series does.
>>
>> Is there any way to revert to the older, more compact layout?
>>
>> Something I can do in geany.css, perhaps?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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>> Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 13:05:47 +1000
>> From: Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>
>> To: Geany general discussion list <users at lists.geany.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] Smaller fonts in file tabs?
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>> On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 12:28, Brent Roman <genosensor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The 1.2 series had much smaller fonts by default for labels that appear
>>> above the editor and file selector panes and to the left of the messages
>>> area than the 1.3 series does.
>> There are no 1.2 and 1.3 series, its 1.<an increasing number>, the
>> maintainer doesn't believe in Semver.
>>
>> You might mean 1.<20s> vs 1.<30s> but that doesn't control it, all can
>> be built with GTK2 or GTK3.
>>
>> You don't say what OS you use but more likely it has switched to
>> providing a GTK3 build of Geany recently, but its GTK3 themes are
>> designed for kiddy phones, not desktops [end rant].
>>
>>> Is there any way to revert to the older, more compact layout?
>>>
>>> Something I can do in geany.css, perhaps?
>> You havn't given the version of Geany, or the version of GTK, for GTK3
>> its geany.css as you suspected and it "should work".
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>> Thanks!
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