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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Sane default font
From:       Anders Lund <anders () alweb ! dk>
Date:       2005-02-21 10:34:50
Message-ID: 200502211134.52465.anders () alweb ! dk
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On Monday 21 February 2005 11:05, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Monday 21 February 2005 10:27, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > determine it interactively and/or
> > dynamically when KDE is first run.
>
> But for 3.4 this is too late.
>
> I suggest to decrease to 10pt for 3.4 and introduce a default-font selector
> in kpersonalizer for 3.5/4
>
> > E.g, using the xrandr program I can get
> >
> > *0   1600 x 1200   ( 363mm x 272mm )  *85   75   70   65   60
> >  1   1024 x 768    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   70   60   87
> >  2    800 x 600    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   72   70   65   60   56
>
> Don't understand what you like to show with that output.
> The idea behind the font size in POINTS (not PIXEL) is to make it
> independent of the actual resolution or screen size, because 1 point ==
> 1/72 inch.

Which again relies on sound configuration -- if you change the resolution, you 
need to adjust the dpi accordingly. Which is often not the case -- hence on 
many computers (for example most computers running win9x) the fonts are 
larger than they should be. (Which again has lead to the silly habit of some 
web designers to use 6pt font for text, which has lead me to setting a 
minimal font size, which leads to rendering trouble on web sites with silly 
style sheets... :\ )

If 1pt == 1/72 inch, a 12pt font will be 2.54*(12/72)cm high, approximately 
0,42 cm. Not that big really - I for one can't do serious reading or editing 
on a screen with fonts that size. It's even hard to read on paper.

-anders

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