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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Default Fonts in KDE
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2005-07-05 11:01:05
Message-ID: 200507051301.09151.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:56, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 July 2005 00:23, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > > No matter what PC I use KDE on, the fonts are always to big, I always
> > > set them to 10pt. Btw. Gnome an XFCE have a default of 10pt as well.
> >
> > 10pt is in deed default now a days. It is also used as default on the web
> > and thus default size in KHTML.
>
> It depends on DPI used AFAIK ;).

Er... No matter what the dpi, a ten point glyph is always the same size. 
Unless you have given X the wrong dpi for the monitor on purpose. Ten points 
is what I use on my 1600x1200 laptop screen; beautifully readable. Much 
better than Windows, which assumes 96x96 or something like that no matter the 
real dpi of the screen. 


-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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