On Sunday 30 May 2004 20:58, Silvan wrote: > I used to run OO.o from a tarball because I had already downloaded it, and > it worked. I couldn't see spending the hours necessary to get the Debian > packages after I switched to a real distro. > > I've just recently gotten a bigger pipe, and have done a clean net install > of Sarge. I got the latest OO.o in the process. All the dialogs and menus > are huge. > > The font sizes look probably larger than they're supposed to be by default, > but they're not overly large. They appear to be about 14 pt. The real > trouble is with widget layout and spacing and such. Huge buttons, huge > dialogs. Everything is spread out more than it would need to be in order > to contain the needed information. Some of the dialogs are difficult to > use because their frames are fixed, but their contents are larger than what > will fit inside, so bits at the right side get cut off. > > Buttons like this > > +------------------------+ +------------------------+ > + + + + > + OK + + CANCEL + > + + + + > +------------------------+ +------------------------+ > > I'm thinking this looks like some kind of DPI issue where OO.o has a > different idea what my DPI is compared to everything else. (Everything > else being mostly KDE apps, but also the GIMP.) > > I can't figure out a way to try to configure my way around this from inside > OO.o, and I'm not sure what else to look at either. > > I've done the same install on a different box with the same results too. > Maybe it's supposed to be that way, but I can't imagine why anyone would > make things this unwieldy on purpose. It might be at home on a 1280x1024 > screen, if the contents of certain dialogs weren't getting cut short. > > Any suggestions? Maybe a dotfile I can tweak or something?
Not a KDE issue but... Try Tools/Options - Scale and Icon Size size
