Gwibber 2.0 Update Fixes Those Giant Fonts…

By , Published October 25, 2009

Social networking client Gwibber this morning recieved a long-due “bug fix” (i’m not if it was ever classed as a bug, but boy it should’ve been!)

Gwibber used to add a +2px to fonts to tweets and the “home” screen. This led to an oddly disjointed feel using it as it was just too large. Manually over-riding the font settings via preferences seemed to do little to help, either.

New users would’ve worried they’d enabled visual assistance!

The update fixes my long standing gripe with Gwibber and it’s excessively large fonts.

I’ll illustrate this just so you don’t think i’m petty!

Old

New

The change looks slightly less drastic when taken out of the “desktop” and shown as ‘just’ as app as you loose the comparability factor.

If you’ve used Gwibber 2.0 on Karmic, update now and you’ll -know- what I griped about!

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    Nice. I much prefer Gwibber with smaller fonts. Now if only they can add a “minimize on startup” option and I’m sold.

  • http://twitter.com/callmegregory Gregory Lawrence

    Actually, the thing that has me happy happy happy is: when you exit the application, it now properly ends the daemon, too, so no more having to hike to the System Monitor to kill it.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Hurrah! I hadn’t noticed that, thanks!

    • Anonymous

      Excellent news!

  • Mohan

    Spell checker still don’t work for me though.

  • http://jordanhall.co.uk/ Jordan Hall

    This issue is sadly still present in the release of Ubuntu 9.10. I wrote a patch which fixed this, but it was recalled prior to the release of Ubuntu 9.10, due to it needing to be fixed properly upsteam.

    If you wish to apply the fix I created, take a look here: http://jordanhall.co.uk/ubuntu-linux/gwibber-large-fonts-in-ubuntu-9.10-karmic-koala-issue/