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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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