[Bug 118745] Re: Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection

[Nick_Hill]

Hello Andreas

Presumably your fonts scaled to 75dpi but displayed on your 96dpi
screen. They were therefore not displayed as an 11pt font but instead
displayed as an 8.5pt font. Now the dpi is presumably detected
correctly, it is displayed, as set, at 11pt.

As you rightly say, there is a matter of taste how big you would like to
see your fonts on screen. But having the system set up so that it does
not "know" the resolution of your screen is not a good way to achieve
the desired result. Putting it another way, if your screen were really
75dpi, you would probably again find the fonts too big.

Once screen dpi is correctly detected and set on the majority of
systems, if users find the fonts are then too big, bugs can be filed
against Gnome/KDE for more appropriate default font sizes.

In the meantime, you can adjust your menu font sizes to your preferred
size in the control panel.

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Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118745
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