Uselessly prints "actual font: ..." to terminal on startup

[Daniel Richard G.]

Binary package hint: tkdiff

This concerns tkdiff 1:4.1.4-1 in Ubuntu Lucid.

Every time I start up tkdiff, I see this:

$ tkdiff file1 file2
 actual font: -family {DejaVu Sans Mono} -size -12 -weight normal -slant roman -underline 0 -overstrike 0

This happens when there is no ~/.tkdiffrc file, and even when there is such a file specifying a larger font. (I use "{{DejaVu Sans Mono} -17}" myself, but the message still says "-size -12".)

This warning message is annoying, and serves no useful purpose. Please make it go away.

[Brian Nguyen (mtxcoll)]

A workaround for this is to comment out the line

puts " actual font: $fa"

in /usr/bin/tkdiff. Looks like that was done in a later revision on SVN: http://tksvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=3861&dsMessageId=2441443

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

Brian, that link you gave is interesting, in that it suggests tkdiff has a new upstream site/repository. The SourceForge site at

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff/

hasn't seen any new development in ages. I see Dorothy Robinson is active in both the new and old repositories (heavily so in the latter, not sure about the former), so it may be worthwhile to inquire with her as to which one should represent the "official" version of tkdiff.