From kde-core-devel  Sun Feb 13 23:15:33 2005
From: Ingo =?utf-8?q?Kl=C3=B6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:15:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE 3.4 Control Center UI Review
Message-Id: <200502140015.35510 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de>
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On Sunday 13 February 2005 23:45, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 23:09, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > how did you get these numbers ?
>
> Manually resizing till everything is on the screen / the scrollbar
> disappears and then checking with xwininfo how large the window is.
>
> > Probably I have different font settings, cause with my setup local
> > network browsing works with  Width: 726,  Height: 519, samba info
> > with  Width: 791, Height: 523.
>
> I use helvetica 12 for all relevant fonts, which corresponds to the
> defaults. Unlike the defaults, I also use 12 for taskbar and toolbar,
> but that shouldn't matter.
>
> xdpyinfo says:
>  resolution:    90x96 dots per inch

This value is much too high. On a 14" monitor the resolution for 800x600=20
is about 72x72 pixels per inch and on a 15" monitor it's only about=20
67x67 pixels per inch. You get a resolution of 90x90 pixels per inch if=20
you display 800x600 on an 11" monitor. I doubt that we want to optimize=20
KDE for such small monitors. So the font you used for your test was way=20
to large (in pixel). For a user with a 14" monitor the 12 point font=20
would be 20% (=3D 1 - 72/90) smaller and thus all configuration dialogs=20
would also be smaller (I guess about 10%).

Regards,
Ingo

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