Changing the look of Konqueror

David Faure david at mandrakesoft.com
Tue May 14 12:27:45 BST 2002


On Tuesday 14 May 2002 13:18, Subotai wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Mai 2002 12:53 schrieben Sie:
> > On Tuesday 14 May 2002 11:25, Subotai wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I hope this is a simple problem: I would like to change the look, or to
> > > be more precise, the size of some of Konquerors parts, especially the
> > > menu buttons and the URL requester. The reason for this is that my
> > > daughter has much trouble using the Konq webbrowser while surfing,
> > > because she doesnt see well. So, i would like to make it easier for her
> > > by increasing the size of the buttons and the requester. Is there a way
> > > to change this?
> > > I am not particularly good at c++, so if anyone has an idea of where to
> > > change this (konqueror sources? khtml-engine? qtlibs?), a hint on how to
> > > change the sources would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Did you try increasing the font size in KControl's font module?
> > A bigger font will automatically imply a bigger menubar, bigger menus,
> > bigger buttons etc.
> 
> Hello Mr. Faure!
> 
> Alas, i am not running Konqueror under KDE; its a basic x with kdelibs and qt 
> 3. Do you think i can use/implement kcontrol as well under this environment?

Doesn't matter. If you have Konqueror, I assume you have all of kdebase?
Type "kcmshell fonts" for instance - or "kcontrol" for all of it.

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