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.
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