Comment 26 for bug 118745
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| Nick_Hill (nick-nickhill) wrote Re: Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection | #26 |
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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.