Bug 136332

Created attachment 18274 [details]
Screenshot of the problem

As you can see, i can't read modified date, the compression,  camera model,
create date and flash information.

A smaller font would help very much.
Oliver

Oliver,

all labels used in sidebar are "squezzed". Just move your mouse under a label and a tips will be displayed to show the complete text.

Gilles

Gilles Caulier wrote:
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Hi Gilles,

i know that they are squeezed and how to do a work around. It's just 
that is not necessary to use a font of that large size. I'll send you a 
mail to your kdemail address with a screenshot "unsqueezed". This is not 
a good layout.

Oliver

Hello,

Do you know you can adjust the font size by using kcontrol ?
It's in "Appearance & Thems" / "Fonts".

But yes, it will change the font size in all KDE applications...

I will add that to the FAQ :)

Hi Fabien,

yes i knew it, but as you said. This would apply to all KDE applications. All other applications are using the right font size, so this is a digiKam spcific Layout problem.

-> Should be solved inside digiKam

Oliver

Your screenshot shows that your menu-font is as large as the sidebar font. Either both fonts are to large, or none of them. Making the Digikam sidebar font smaller will hurt all people with normal-sized fonts.

From a quick look at the source, there is no font set at all for the properties sidebar (Gilles may correct me). This means what you see is the KDE default.

I also have a display width of 1280. When I view the screenshot in original size, it is obvious to me that each visible font in the screenshot is much bigger than what I'm used to. I assume that is your preference, but if you want large fonts it takes screen real estate, there is not much we can do for this.

Ok,

close it. I've never changed the default size of the fonts. So i believe this must be the default for my distribution.

Oliver

Yes Marcel, i confirm than none font are set in implementation.

Oliver, are you installed TTF from win32 ?

Gilles

Not as far as i know. If they are on my system, then they belöong to the default instaööation of SuSE 10.0.

I can't even find an rpm that sounds like that.

There is no RPM for that. Because Win32 fonts are controled by patents, these files must be imported manualy using a dedicaced tool.

Gilles

Personally, I am pretty pedantic about beautiful, antialiased fonts, and if I reinstalled a system one of the very first KDE settings I would change is the fonts ;-)
There is the corefonts package which contains the classic fonts (Arial, Times New Roman). These fonts were once published by MS under a license that permits free copying. There are also beautiful free fonts (Bitstream Vera, extended as Dejavu). I'm not sure but I think if you have a preinstalled Microsoft system it's ok to copy over the fonts to Linux, using system admin mode in the KDE control center.
I would assume Suse has installed a basic set of fonts, so what remains to be done is go to the KDE control center and set a font in a font size small enough not to waste screen space, large enough for any refractive error of your eyes ;-)

ok, when i take a look at the control center -> fonts, i'll see that the system is mainly using the arial fonts, except from monospace and desktop. So i believe it is also using arial 12 pt for the sidebar.

So, what all of you are saying is that i should change this font to get a smaller layout inside the sidebar. Of course i can do it and so forget about this bug.

To be honest i will not do it because aall other applications looks good with the way the system is configured now.

I will vote for the whish about a seperate configuration for the fonts of digiKam instead.

Thanks to all for your hints
Oliver

Created attachment 18302 [details]
Screenshot

Hm. I am using Arial 12 as well, and it looks very different to your
screenshot.

Created attachment 18304 [details]
Font settings on my system

Oliver, what is the output of
xdpyinfo | grep resolution
?
Your screen looks like it use a fixed but wrong resolution (dpi)

doerr@bibo:~> xdpyinfo | grep resolution
  resolution:    108x113 dots per inch

Hmm, that mean your visual screen area is
30cm x 23cm

1280px * in          cm
------------ * 2.54 ---- = 30cm
108px                in 

correct?

No,

it's 37,5 x 30 cm

So, that means the resolution should be 87x87 dpi.

Try to correct your /etx/X11/xorg.conf and put your display size in mm into the Monitor section (example):

[...]
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Monitor1"
        VendorName      "SamsungEizoNecETC"
        ModelName       "MultiMasterSuperSync 0815"
        DisplaySize     375 300    # <--- new config option (size in mm)
        HorizSync       30-81
        VertRefresh     60
EndSection
[...]

When restarting X you should notice that the fonts are smaller and you should check that a circle is still a circle.

Is your monitor a TFT or a CTR? Cause 87DPI looks very small for me. Not sure if there are enough point per inch to renter sharp fonts. A standard TFT working in its native resolution has 96dpi

HTH

  Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,

just changed the DisplaySize as you recommed. Everything is readable, but i'm not sure if i like it. To be honest, the size that i'm now using reminds me on my Laptop. Very small, very clean fonts, but i'm an old man (36 years ;-) and i'm wearing glases, so i could see advantages in big fonts ;-)

The Monitor that i have is a TFT.

Oliver

Let's close this bug. As i see there are plenty of ways to configure this stuff.

Oliver