Hi, after a "normal/default" Plasma installation, Konsole doesn't look like being part of the overall Plasma experience. But it could be so easy... ;-) Just set "Breeze" as Konsole's default theme. (It's the default Plasma theme, anyway.) It really looks so much nicer (and most of the people I know do that step manually via: "Appearance" -> "Color Scheme and Background" -> "Breeze"). It's a small (but IMHO important) step to make the Plasma desktop feel more consistent! Talking about default settings, another suggestion I have, is to increase the default font size by 1pt. (Thus, from 10pt to 11pt.) That's also a thing lots of user do after a fresh installation (in my experience). Please consider... & thanks for your great work Gerhard
The default font size is the same as the fixed font size set in kdeglobals; so you need to file a separate bug against whatever component sets the default font size in KF5. (I don't know which component ... :)).
FWIW I agree that the default fixed-width font size is too small and submitting a patch to increase it has been on my to-do list for a while. I also plan to do the same with the geberal font (10pt -> 11pt), for the same reason that you identified, but I expect that will be fairly controversial... Let's use this bug to track using the Breeze theme by default.
First patch submitted: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17613
Git commit cb8b97a8f1e8beaf1c915a2f26d9bd1e0cdadb5e by Kurt Hindenburg, on behalf of Nate Graham. Committed on 17/12/2018 at 15:40. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Update Breeze color scheme's colors Summary: When I updated the colors of the systemwide Breeze color scheme last year, I neglected to update the Konsole color scheme. This patch corrects that oversight. Colors taken from https://hig.kde.org/style/color/default.html Test Plan: Overall, the contrast is much better than it was before. {F6479084} {F6479083} Reviewers: #konsole, hindenburg Reviewed By: #konsole, hindenburg Subscribers: hindenburg, konsole-devel Tags: #konsole Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17613 M +8 -8 data/color-schemes/Breeze.colorscheme https://commits.kde.org/konsole/cb8b97a8f1e8beaf1c915a2f26d9bd1e0cdadb5e
Patch #2: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17648
Git commit 679a14ebe30bf031899bc2a6bbaccf7a3649fd13 by Kurt Hindenburg, on behalf of Nate Graham. Committed on 18/12/2018 at 15:15. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Use Breeze color scheme by default Summary: Various people have suggested over the years that we use the Breeze color scheme by default, to improve continuity with other KDE applications. This patch makes it happen. FIXED-IN: 19.04.0 Test Plan: Create new user account and open Konsole: {F6485803, size=full} Reviewers: #konsole, #vdg, hindenburg Reviewed By: #konsole, hindenburg Subscribers: konsole-devel Tags: #konsole Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17648 M +1 -1 src/Profile.cpp https://commits.kde.org/konsole/679a14ebe30bf031899bc2a6bbaccf7a3649fd13