Docky

label fonts don't follow gnome settings

Bug #502428 reported by daspooky on 2010-01-02

This bug affects 13 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Docky	New	Wishlist	Jason Smith

Bug Description

The fonts in the labels (when hovering an icon in docky) are rendered poorly. The rendering is not the same as in all other gnome applications (I actually have a .fonts.conf file in my home directory, with some fonts settings configured. These settings are not respected in the docky labels).

Robert Dyer (psybers) on 2010-01-02

Changed in docky:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
assignee:	nobody → Daniel Fore (daniel-p-fore)

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2010-01-08:

Robert,

Can you check to see if its possible to read in the font rendering settings?

Changed in docky:
assignee:	Daniel Fore (daniel-p-fore) → Robert Dyer (psybers)

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote on 2010-01-08:

No, I cant.

Changed in docky:
assignee:	Robert Dyer (psybers) → Jason Smith (jassmith)

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eZFlow (breakdevize) wrote on 2010-09-30:

Indeed, changing to any other font then the default Sans Ubuntu font results in poor looking labels and context menu's. Especially annoying with the Gmail docklet. The fonts should not change or change according the gnome settings.

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Jinchuan Tang (tangjinchuan) wrote on 2013-12-31:

patch.tar.gz Edit (9.6 KiB, application/x-tar)

Just use Docky and Ubuntu, it is pretty. Hope this patch can help those who have HDPI screens. The font size is changing with the system size now. But the background would not. This problme is the same as the ubuntu's background.
Note: the bold font has been changed back to normal.
How to:
-Download the source code of docky-2.2.0
-Copy or merge the two files into the old file in the source code of docky-2.2.0
-Following the Install Dependencies part of the following links
http://wiki.go-docky.com/index.php?title=Installation#Installing_From_Source
-Build with the following cmds:
./configure
make
sudo make install