Sane default font

[Esben Mose Hansen]

On Monday 2005-02-21 11:06, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Monday 21 February 2005 12:29, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > It was just a suggestion. Personally, I just correct (enlarge) all the
> > fonts manually when I first start KDE.
>
> The idea behind a change is to have the best default for the majority of
> new users.

Is that really better than "readable for most users" (say 95%)? I really think 
that this is not a good move at this beta-2 stage. We should be fixing bugs, 
not making far-reaching changes.

As I said, changing fonts to smaller fonts is easy if the fonts are too large 
for comfort, but it is difficult to change if they are too small to read...

> As coolo mentioned that also Suse changed the default to 10pt (and I'm sure
> they have a large customer base to have a good decision base), I'm even
> more convinced we should change it.

From what I know of SuSE, I wouldn't count on a systematic survey.

> On Windows (XP), the default I seen here is again smaller than 10 points
> (whatever a fontsize "Normal" means ...) - and they are too small for my
> eyes. (Measuring them with a ruler: 2mm !)

On windows, many people use a lower resolution to enlarge the font. Yes, 
really. 

-- 
regards. Esben