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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Font size setting inconsistency in kcontrol with DPI > 75 (more info)
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-27 17:30:31
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On Sam, 27 Jan 2001, Guillaume Laurent wrote:

> - in kcontrol, look'n feel->fonts, click on "use defaults". For "File
> Manager" fonts I get helvetica 7, which looks fine.
> 
> - go to "File Browsing", "Appearance" tab, select "small" font, apply.
> 
> - go back to look'n feel->fonts : "File Manager" font is now helvetica 10,
>  way too big.

oh. that sounds like a bug. 

> But more generally, the problem is that the current hardcoded *point* sizes 
> don't look very good for DPIs higher than 75 : fonts are just too big. Even 
> the "small" setting for konqueror font in filebrowsing mode is quite large on 
> my screen.

Well, thats the reason why we use point sizes - because they scale 
automatically with the dpi. after all, The problem is which policy we should 
use.. right now we mix both, which is bad. 


Dirk

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