Bug 445908 - Feature Request: have a seperate font category for 'Plasma', that allows you to set the font of Plasma widgets and panels
Summary: Feature Request: have a seperate font category for 'Plasma', that allows you ...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_fonts (show other bugs)
Version: 5.23.3
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2021-11-22 07:36 UTC by strangequark
Modified: 2021-11-23 17:36 UTC (History)
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Description strangequark 2021-11-22 07:36:31 UTC 
SUMMARY
Currently, there is a 'General' font that configures everything. I think more granularity would be better, so that the font for Plasma widgets and panels can be set slightly smaller than everything else. I think there is a usecase for needing small fonts for, say, monitoring widgets pinned to the screen or for the Task Manager with app labels.

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OBSERVED RESULT
There is no way to configure fonts in widgets/panels without configuring the General font which messes with the fonts of everything.

EXPECTED RESULT
There should be a 'Plasma font' category which configures the fonts of only Plasma panels and widgets

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.23
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Graphics Platform: X11

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Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-11-23 17:36:16 UTC 
This seems like extreme over-configuration; I don't think we can consider it, sorry.

If you find that the font size is too large for widgets in a panel, that's something that could be fixed in the widgets themselves. Their font size could scale down when there's not much room, for example.