emacs23 does not apply gnome appearance properties for fonts

[dhenry]

Binary package hint: emacs23

On karmic, emacs23 does not follow font settings as set in Gnome Appearance Properties. This is similar to:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/379761/ (firefox 3.5 on karmic)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/fontconfig/+bug/190848 (gnome-terminal on hardy)

Fixes given in above bugs works for emacs23 (for example, editing ~/.fonts.conf).

[Janos Zsitvai (zsitvaij)]

This should be fixed when Emacs gets updated to 23.2 and built with gconf (and font-use-system-font set is set to non-nil.) No telling when that might happen, though: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/588203

From the News file ( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.23.2 ):
** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected.
Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this.
This is used by the `font-use-system-font' feature (see below).

** Font changes

*** Emacs can use the system default monospaced font in Gnome.
To enable this feature, set `font-use-system-font' to non-nil (it is
nil by default). If the system default changes, Emacs changes also.
This feature requires Gconf support, which is automatically included
at compile-time if configure detects the gconf libraries (you can
disable this with the configure option --without-gconf).

*** On X11, Emacs reacts to Xft changes made by configuration tools,
via the XSETTINGS mechanism. This includes antialias, hinting,
hintstyle, RGBA, DPI and lcdfilter changes.