Default Fonts in KDE

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper]

I've been plagued by this many times in the past too.   I don't use any gnome 
applications anymore, don't use gnome-settings-daemon, so don't have this 
problem currently, but still I would LOVE to find out why this happens.

On Saturday 09 July 2005 21:07, Alan Ezust wrote:
> 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.
>
> I've been unable to get the gnome and kde fonts sizes matching up.
>
> On 7/4/05, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> > Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > > I think many people noticed it, but nobody seems to care, not even on
> > > bugs.kde.org <http://bugs.kde.org>. The default Fonts in KDE are not
> >
> > very well choosen.
> >
> > > There are two problems:
> > >
> > > 1.) They point to values that are either not installed on many systems
> >
> > or not
> >
> > > Antialiaseable. This is why many people think their Fonts are broken,
> >
> > but
> >
> > > they are not. Just the Defaults are broken. A very easy fix for this to
> > > change the default values to "sans", "serif" and "monotype", so
> >
> > fontconfig
> >
> > > can take care of it. If this raises Problems on distributions without
> > > fontconfig (any distribution out there without fontconfig? i don't
> > > think
> >
> > so)
> >
> > > we can put ifdefs around this.
> >
> > Yes this change should be made to replace Helvetica with "Sans Serif".
> > This is probably OK to replace Courier with "Monospace" as well since
> > the Type1 Courier that comes with XFree86 is quite old.
> >
> > XFree86 and Xorg now ship with FontConfig so it shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > > 2.) The size of the fonts is to big. I propose to reduce it to
> > > 10points.
> >
> > I don't see the fonts as being too big. Do you have a 1024x768 screen
> > set to 100 DPI?
> >
> > --
> > JRT
> >
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