Bug 178605

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The symptoms of the bug (found in 4.1.3, but still applies to today's trunk):

I've tried to set the medium font size in the Akregator settings from 10 to 12, but Akregator does not remember this setting, i.e., it gets lost and reset to 10 after closing and reopening Akregator (in fact, no line 'MediumFontSize=12' is added to akregatorrc in this case). It works for any other font size, but not 12.

My analysis of the problem:

In akregator/configuration/settings_advancedbase.ui, the default medium font size is set to 12. The consequence is that if I set the medium font size to 12 in the settings, the settings module thinks it's the default and therefore does not store the setting in akregatorrc.

But unfortunately, there's also another default setting: If no 'MediumFontSize=...' setting is found in akregatorrc on startup (or there is no akregatorrc file at all), Part::initFonts() in akregator_part.cpp sets the medium font size to Konqueror's font size or KGlobalSettings::generalFont().pointSize(), which turns out to be 10.

So the problem is that there are 2 conflicting default settings for the font size (also for the minimal one: 7 and 10). I think it might be better to only have one default value, i.e., the one in settings_advancedbase.ui. If no font size settings are found in akregatorrc, one could just use that value. The disadvantage is that Konqueror's settings are never used, but I think this is more than outweighed by the advantage that users (like me) don't have to wonder why their preferred settings are not stored ;-)