[Mageia-discuss] Firefox problem (more)

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Wednesday 14 Mar 2012 09:11 my mailbox was graced by a message from peter 
winterflood who wrote:
> >> Since a reboot following a power cut, the fontsize used by Firefox to
> >> display  text in toolbars, menus and tab titles has become very small.
> >> Display of web pages is not affected.
> >> Any idea where this can be changed ?
> >> Firefox 8.0.1,  KDE 4.6.5, Mageia 1 kept reasonably up to date  ;-3)

> > I have found since that the same problem also affects all the Drak tools
> > I  have tried to run: diskdrake, rpmdrake, drakconnect, drakxconf...

> ive seen this after rigorous removal of all gnone stuff.
> its down to a missing (perhaps corrupt in your case) 
> ia_ora-gnome-1.0.25-1.mga1
> without that you get the symptom you describe with firefox and mageia 
> control

Thanks.

OK, but I did not remove/change anything; strange ?
 
I now reinstalled   ia_ora-gnome-1.0.25-1.mga1 and things returned to normal; 
query: Why do I need gnome stuff in a KDE install ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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