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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Another Font inconsistency (should really be fixed)
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2001-05-18 13:42:37
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On Friday 18 May 2001 14:20, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> This problem is _really_ annoying.

I agree. I reported it a few months ago and even submitted a patch (which 
unfortunately sucked), but no further action was taken.

The core of the problem is that KDE deals with fonts *point* size (as opposed 
to pixel size) just about everywhere except in the LookNFeel/Fonts module (if 
I recall correctly), which uses pixel sizes. Point sizes are computed so that 
fonts will have the same physical size on your screen regardless of the 
resolution.

If your X server DPI setting is 75, you won't see the problem because point 
and pixel sizes are roughly the same. If you have anything higher (typically 
100 or 120), you'll see it.

There was also a problem with hard-coded default point sizes, which would be 
inappropriate for DPI > 75. I'm not sure if that was solved, I haven't really 
tested it since.

I still fail to see what we gain from using point sizes rather than pixel 
sizes, though :-).

-- 
Guillaume
http://www.telegraph-road.org

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