[Mageia-discuss] Firefox problem (more)

[peter winterflood]

Ron nice to know that fixed it

on your other question, i agree, thats why i suspected it was that rpm 
as i have a distaste for anything gnome

and had tried to remove everything related, and ran into the same symptom.

regards peter
> On Wednesday 14 Mar 2012 09:11 my mailbox was graced by a message from peter 
> winterflood who wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>