font problem in Fedora 10/Thunderbird

Sun Feb 22 05:03:10 UTC 2009

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 10:58 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 09:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Thunderbird is a Gnome application so you could try playing with the
> > Gnome font settings.
> 
> Do Thunderbird and Firefox really *have* to be Gnome applications?  Is
> there some advantage in lumbering them with this on Linux?  They
> certainly aren't Gnome-dependent on the Windows platform!

Ask the Mozilla devels. I suspect they are deeply uninterested in
supporting more than one desktop on Linux, and Gnome is it.

poc