Bug 114723

Summary: Default font sizes too small
Product: [Unmaintained] kicker Reporter: Peter Thomassen <mail>
Component: kclockappletAssignee: Christian Gebauer <gebauer>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex, fredistic
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Peter Thomassen 2005-10-19 21:49:21 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.92)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

When showing the date and/or using the simple, non-digital clock, fonts are set to Arial, 8pt by default. This is way too small; for the time I suggest 20pt, for the date 10pt.

BTW, it should also be considered to enable date display by default.
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-10-20 12:35:05 UTC 
How high, in pixels, is a 72pt font for you?

Use kword and kruler to measure.
Comment 2 Peter Thomassen 2005-10-20 14:57:46 UTC 
"Ag" is about 65px. Using autocrop in Kolourpaint produces 67px for "Ag", 52px for "A" and 54px for "g".

Do you wanna header that I set X -dpi 75? I consider the default value of 100dpi to produce too big fonts ... and then, I complain about small the small ones. :-) But nevertheless, I can't imagine that 8pt for the date font of the simple clock is enough.

I didn't think of that fact. I'm going to try 100dpi and to report what changed.
Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2005-10-20 20:52:13 UTC 
Yeah, I've asked a stupid question. The size in pixel is irrelevant for the discussion. I should have asked for the actual size.

But, yeah, maybe 8pt is too small.

Now, the current clock applet has been removed for the time being from KDE 4. Let's see what the default is when the new clock is introduced.
Comment 4 Peter Thomassen 2005-10-20 21:24:20 UTC 
I computed the real dpi value using (width / horizontal pixel number), leading to 102. KDE looks much better now with its default font sizes :-D, but in simple clock, the time still is too small. It would be nice if this could be set to 10-12pt for KDE 3.5, just to be able to show people how awesome KDE is :-).
Comment 5 FiNeX 2009-09-08 00:00:36 UTC 
Kicker is no more mantained and all bugs/wishes will not be fixed/implemented in KDE3. A list of the most interesting/unresolved issues which is still valid for KDE4 has been created. Before reopening old kicker bugs on KDE4 Plasma, please try the new KDE 4.3.1, check the current behaviour and, only if you find new bugs or if you need a particular feature, open a new bug report.

Remember that KDE 4 is a full rewrite of KDE 3 so some old features will not be re-implemented because the behaviour has be changed a lot on some sides.

Thanks for the comprehension and enjoy the new KDE 4!

-- 
FiNeX & D. Andres