Version: (using KDE 4.4.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Steps to reproduce ================== Configuration / Configure Konqueror ... / category Internet Navigation / sub-category: Appearance / Fonts tab and here Minimal font size and Medium font size a) should display unit in the chrome window, just at the right side of the numerical up arrow(^)/down arrow(v) selector b) the display unit should be "pixels" Why === a) All current mainstream browsers (IE8, Firefox 3.x, Opera 10.x, Safari 4.x, Seamonkey 2.x) all offer to set average and/or minimal font size in pixels only. The current de facto web-browser-industry standard is 16px for medium font-size and for unstyled body text (like <p>). b) Not showing any unit is definitely not helpful or confusing: the user has no certainty on what is the unit c) pt unit is known to be best for printing and for print media (print preview, page medium); pixel is best for screen resolution, is related to screen resolution. pt is best used when the physical properties of the medium are fixed and known. Because 72pts = one inch and 1pt = 1/72 inch. Screen resolution can be 800x600, 1024x768, etc. " Absolute length units are only useful when the physical properties of the output medium are known. (...) The absolute units are: pt: points — the points used by CSS 2.1 are equal to 1/72nd of an inch. " http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units regards, Gérard
FYI, all KDE font settings are in pts, so making this be pixels is no go. I need to dig up my patch that makes it -real- points and not web ones, though.
There is now a de facto standard among web browser vendors to use pixels as the font size unit. Diverging from such standard - for whatever reason - is not necessarly going to help the user or the web author. Regardless of the unit KDE+Konqueror chooses for setting font size in web pages as an implementation strategy (and regardless of the reasons for such choice) still must make the interface show what is the unit. Whether it's px or pt or whatever unit, the interface (Minimal font size and Medium font size) should still clearly and explicitly show such unit for font size. This is furthermore justified and relevant if Konqueror diverges from the de facto standard among web browser vendors. regards, Gérard
> all KDE font settings are in pts When I use Konqueror's DOM treeviewer (Tools/View DOM tree) and then Computed Style tab, the font-size is shown with "px" unit, not "pt". regards, Gérard
I'd say it would not hurt to display the word "points" to the right of the spinbuttons.