The default fonts look fine until I run gnome-settings-daemon and then
suddenly kde fonts get WAAAY too big. But the gnome fonts (which
previously were too small) become the correct size.<br>
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I've been unable to get the gnome and kde fonts sizes matching up.<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Richard Tyrer</b> <<a href="mailto:tyrerj@acm.org">tyrerj@acm.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Heinrich Wendel wrote:<br>> I think many people noticed it, but nobody seems to care, not even on<br>> <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">bugs.kde.org</a>. The default Fonts in KDE are not very well choosen.<br>><br>> There are two problems:
<br>><br>> 1.) They point to values that are either not installed on many systems or not<br>> Antialiaseable. This is why many people think their Fonts are broken, but<br>> they are not. Just the Defaults are broken. A very easy fix for this to
<br>> change the default values to "sans", "serif" and "monotype", so fontconfig<br>> can take care of it. If this raises Problems on distributions without<br>> fontconfig (any distribution out there without fontconfig? i don't think so)
<br>> we can put ifdefs around this.<br><br>Yes this change should be made to replace Helvetica with "Sans Serif".<br>This is probably OK to replace Courier with "Monospace" as well since<br>the Type1 Courier that comes with XFree86 is quite old.
<br><br>XFree86 and Xorg now ship with FontConfig so it shouldn't be a problem.<br><br>> 2.) The size of the fonts is to big. I propose to reduce it to 10points.<br><br>I don't see the fonts as being too big. Do you have a 1024x768 screen
<br>set to 100 DPI?<br><br>--<br>JRT<br><br><br>>> Visit <a href="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub">http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub</a> to unsubscribe <<<br></blockquote>
</div><br><br><br>-- <br>University of Victoria<br>Department of Computer Science<br>Victoria, BC, Canada<br>