Sane default font

[Esben Mose Hansen]

On Monday 2005-02-21 10:05, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Monday 21 February 2005 10:27, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > determine it interactively and/or
> > dynamically when KDE is first run.
>
> But for 3.4 this is too late.

Then leave it alone.

>
> I suggest to decrease to 10pt for 3.4 and introduce a default-font selector
> in kpersonalizer for 3.5/4

You don't like old people, do you? :)

>
> > E.g, using the xrandr program I can get
> >
> > *0   1600 x 1200   ( 363mm x 272mm )  *85   75   70   65   60
> >  1   1024 x 768    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   70   60   87
> >  2    800 x 600    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   72   70   65   60   56
>
> Don't understand what you like to show with that output.
> The idea behind the font size in POINTS (not PIXEL) is to make it
> independent of the actual resolution or screen size, because 1 point ==
> 1/72 inch.

That, unfortunately, is only true in print. The DPI-setting of monitors have, 
at least historically, been far from the truth. However, with modern 
monitors, the correct DPI could be extracted, contrasted with the current 
dpi-setting and corrected.

It was just a suggestion. Personally, I just correct (enlarge) all the fonts 
manually when I first start KDE.

-- 
regards. Esben