Default Fonts in KDE

[Alan Ezust]

the response I got from Jes Hall had the exact solution to my problem:
> if so, you should have a look at the gtk-qt engine from

> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fgtk_2dqt<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fgtk_2dqt>

> This gives you a KDE control centre module from which you can set gtk 
styles
and fonts.

apt-get install gtk2-engines-gtk-qt


On 7/11/05, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vR at movingparts.net> wrote:
> 
> 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> <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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