Comment 1 for bug 59936

Hi All,

I have some more information about this item and a fix.

A default ubuntu install (I'm using edgy in this example) does not install gtk1.2 by default.
When an application is added (say xmms) that is dependant on gtk1.2, the libgtk1.2-common package gets installed which provides the system defaults

http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/misc/libgtk1.2-common

Problems with the defaults are
#1 it uses a font which looks terrible without anti-alising, and is too big
#2 the default style belongs in the 1980's

althought most gtk apps have migrated to gtk2 by now, there's quite a few commercial apps that use gtk1.2 still - and why do we want commercial apps to look so ordinary???