Bug#246772: gedit: Does not use standard font dialog

[Moses Lei]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.4.1-1
Severity: normal

gedit does not use the standard font dialog in File->Page Setup->Fonts.
(The standard font dialog I refer to is the one used by
gnome-font-properties.) The biggest problem with the gedit font dialog
is that if you try to change the font, it will reset your selection to
the first font and style available-- not what was originally set-- thus
forcing you to find the font you wanted again (when perhaps all you
wanted to do was change the font size, for example). This is a huge
problem for people who need to print in various fonts.

Please do not change this to wishlist, because it is an actual bug--
unexpected behavior inconsistent with the GNOME standard.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-3     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15                 0.50.5-2     The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                   2.4.1-4      Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.2-2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail-common              1.4.1-1      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                   1.4.1-1      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 2.0.1-6      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-9      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0          2.4.2-4      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0        2.4.2-2      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-10   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-5     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0       0.7.0-2      Shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.9-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1                 0.8.3-7      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-7     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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