gnome-panel clock appears in bold for dust themes

[Rocko]

Binary package hint: gnome-themes-ubuntu

I'm not sure if this is intentional: the Karmic version of the dust themes now shows the Applications/Places/System menu in bold (much like the Shiki themes), but the gnome-panel clock also shows in bold, which takes up more real estate on the screen. (Jaunty's version had neither in bold.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 30 14:53:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-themes-ubuntu 0.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-themes-ubuntu
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Kido (greasedbolt)]

Yes, it is intentional. I'm actually unsure if the bold text is better.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I quite like the way that Shiki does it, with bold text for the Applications/Places/System menu but normal text for the clock, simply because otherwise the clock uses up lots of space. Of course, having Applications/Places/System in bold also takes up more space :(

[Kido (greasedbolt)]

Removed bold styles in bzr.

[Josh Hill (ingenium)]

Just upgraded from jaunty to karmic, and the dust theme still has the bold text. Is there some way to switch it back?

[Kido (greasedbolt)]

The change didn't make it to karmic. You can use the newest release of Dust, though.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Is there a ppa for Dust with this newest release?

[Maleeq (sleek-maleeq)]

Hi, you could try this to remove the bold texts on the panel (I don't know if there's a better way out there though)

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Just open up your home folder and make sure you can view all hidden files, look for the file .gtkrc-2.0

If the file isnt there open up your text editor and create one, put this into that file:

style "modpanel"
{
font_name = "Sans 9"
fg[NORMAL] = "#060606"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "modpanel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "modpanel"
widget "*fast-user-switch-applet*" style "modpanel"

Thats it! Just save the file. And into the terminal put :

killall gnome-panel

Now you got readable fonts in gnome panel.
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source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1138150

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-themes-ubuntu - 0.6

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gnome-themes-ubuntu (0.6) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * Fix find snippet dropping -x bits to not touch the upstream files (only
    the installed one) and reverse logic to clear the bits of all files except
    *.sh files (only file needing +x in this package).

  [ Andrew Starr-Bochicchio ]
  * Update Dust{-Sand} to lp:~dusttheme-dev/dusttheme/0.5
   - gnome-panel clock should not be bold (LP: #439191).
   - Text overlaps with icon in window title bar (LP: #371743).
   - Remove depricate Murrine configuration option "gradients" (LP: #529811)
  * Update New Wave to version 0.8.2 (LP:508851).
   - Nautilus focus ring is not visible (LP: #390601).
   - Thumbnails corrupted in Appearance Preferences (LP: #416030).
  * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:22:08 -0500