the response I got from Jes Hall had the exact solution to my problem:<br>
> if so, you should have a look at the gtk-qt engine from<br>
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<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fgtk_2dqt" target="_blank">> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fgtk_2dqt</a><br>
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> This gives you a KDE control centre module from which you can set gtk styles<br>
and fonts.<br>
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apt-get install gtk2-engines-gtk-qt<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper</b> <<a href="mailto:vR@movingparts.net">vR@movingparts.net</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;">
I've been plagued by this many times in the past too. I don't use any gnome<br>applications anymore, don't use gnome-settings-daemon, so don't have this<br>problem currently, but still I would LOVE to find out why this happens.
<br><br>On Saturday 09 July 2005 21:07, Alan Ezust wrote:<br>> The default fonts look fine until I run gnome-settings-daemon and then<br>> suddenly kde fonts get WAAAY too big. But the gnome fonts (which previously<br>
> were too small) become the correct size.<br>><br>> I've been unable to get the gnome and kde fonts sizes matching up.<br>><br>> On 7/4/05, James Richard Tyrer <<a href="mailto:tyrerj@acm.org">tyrerj@acm.org
</a>> wrote:<br>> > 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> <<a href="http://bugs.kde.org">
http://bugs.kde.org</a>>. The default Fonts in KDE are not<br>> ><br>> > very well choosen.<br>> ><br>> > > There are two problems:<br>> > ><br>> > > 1.) They point to values that are either not installed on many systems
<br>> ><br>> > or not<br>> ><br>> > > Antialiaseable. This is why many people think their Fonts are broken,<br>> ><br>> > but<br>> ><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<br>> ><br>> > fontconfig<br>> ><br>> > > can take care of it. If this raises Problems on distributions without
<br>> > > fontconfig (any distribution out there without fontconfig? i don't<br>> > > think<br>> ><br>> > so)<br>> ><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<br>> > > 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>> > >> Visit <a href="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub">http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub
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