Hi,
On Saturday 26 December 2009 15:31:10 Jens M Andreasen wrote:
I am trying to fix the size of my UI to be independent
of the selected
WM theme. I have a gtkrc (based on the "Ia Oya" engine) which will do
that - except for the font sizes which will vary dependent on how screen
resolution is set globally.
One work-around I have found is to use a font that has only one size. Of
that kind I have found three: "Terminal" (medium sized, looks a bit like
a flattened "9x15"), "Teletext" (like "Terminal" but
wider),
"Outcast" (small, "Tek"-like slanted) and "Caption" which
is again like
"Terminal but twice the size and more polished.
Are these fonts standard in any distribution? Or a result of the
dependencies of whatever packages I might whimsically have happened to
have currently installed?
[Dots per inch makes little sense when the target could be a cinema
sized 800x600 projector as well as a handheld with similar resolution]
Please use the fonts the user has selected in the sizes the user has selected.
There is a reason why some people use 9px Times and others use 20pt bold
Verdana. [*] And an applications programmer trying to be smarter than the user
ends destroying the users experience...
Arnold
[*] And there is a reason why modern toolkits have dynamic layouts and such
stuff.