D14869: [RFC] Increase default font sizes by 1 pt

[Andres Betts]

abetts added a comment.


  In D14869#312156 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D14869#312156>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > Apparently people are passionate about font sizes. :)
  >
  > after reading everyone's comments here, it seems like this will probably not work on its own, but has usefully exposed a number of other changes that we should make before revisiting it (if we ever do):
  >
  > First of all, it seems confusing and unnecessary to have multiple methods of adjusting the scale of the user interface:
  >
  > - Force Fonts DPI in the Fonts KCM. I've been told before that this is an ugly hack that people shouldn't use, but maybe that's not true?
  > - Adjusting the font size in the Fonts KCM automatically adjusts the size of user interface elements in a similar manner to the Force Fonts DPI setting.
  > - User interface scaling in the KScreen KCM. This appears to be the recommended method, though it's still quite buggy and exposes a lot of visual artifacts, which are steadily being fixed, to be fair. Also, it currently only supports integer scale factors in Wayland.
  > - Resolution slider/combobox in the KScreen KCM. This is probably not something users should use for scaling the UI (do people change their screen resolutions very often anymore), but it's there anyway.
  >
  > Second, it seems like we should do some scaling automatically so that people don't see radically different sizes for their user interface depending on the DPI of their screen. If you measured window titlebars with a caliper on multiple screens of different DPI values, the height should always be the same. This should also be automatic out of the box if possible, so that people don't need to manually configure it to get it to work. I think users would really love this feature, which would in practice probably depend on sorting out the first issue first.
  >
  > Third, //maybe// it makes sense to increase the titlebar font by a bit in order to emphasize it, but 13pt bold is super excessive.
  >
  > Does this sound sensible to everyone who's chimed in here?
  
  
  This sounds good to me!

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