Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-10 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Dim 10 Avril 2005 20:33, Nick Leverton a écrit : > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:22:11PM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote: > > I realise you're only talking about default-setting here, but I've > > noticed that KDE already looks a lot better at 1024x768 than at > > 800x600 ... as if the higher resolutions a

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-10 Thread Nick Leverton
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:22:11PM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote: > I realise you're only talking about default-setting here, but I've > noticed that KDE already looks a lot better at 1024x768 than at > 800x600 ... as if the higher resolutions are being "designed in". I am not sure of the dot pitch on

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-10 Thread Nick Boyce
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:16:26 -0400, Christopher Martin wrote: > A 17" display, 16" viewale, at 1024x768 is ~80 dpi, but most people > probably run at 1280x1024, Just FYI, since you asked for feedback (and because most of my colleagues say the same as you): I use 17" monitors everywhere, and I r

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-10 Thread Christoffer Sawicki
> > exists (antialiasing is a pain for monospace fonts in my vim IMHO) > > konsole and antialiasing isn't a goot idea I fully agree. Just to state a different opinion; I like it very much. */ Christoffer Sawicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
On Friday 08 April 2005 12:16 pm, Christopher Martin wrote: > I still want feedback on the new defaults, but please do include your > display size, resolution, etc. The defaults you have chosen match the sizes I currently use (10pt). My DPI is set to the actual DPI (80 x 81 px on a monitor with

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 08 April 2005 22:28, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > With scalable fonts and TFTs dpi tweaking is stupid (IMO or course). > the point is I use bitmap fonts for monospace fonts in my terminals, and > I can assure you the dpi is quite important then ;) > > give me a nice looking monospaced fon

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
> With scalable fonts and TFTs dpi tweaking is stupid (IMO or course). the point is I use bitmap fonts for monospace fonts in my terminals, and I can assure you the dpi is quite important then ;) give me a nice looking monospaced font ... and I'll see. but it does not exists (antialiasing is a p

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 08 April 2005 17:22, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > afaik, when using kdm, dpi is guessed by X. > > my dpi was read on my both screens (the physical ones) and resulted in > > x-dpi and y-dpi (I mean the horiz and vertical dpi weren't the same). > > > > maybe then

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 10:44, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think you have a tough job adjusting the fonts, since it heavily > depents on the dpi-setting of the system. The main problem here (often > heard in debian.user.german) is, that kdm uses 75dpi by default but > startx starts with 100dpi. > But i *t

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > afaik, when using kdm, dpi is guessed by X. > my dpi was read on my both screens (the physical ones) and resulted in > x-dpi and y-dpi (I mean the horiz and vertical dpi weren't the same). > > maybe then if fallbacks to 75dpi if no information is found on the > hardware .

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christopher Martin wrote: > On April 8, 2005 03:22, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> I think someone has forgotten to set the fontsizes right - there are all >> a bi too small > > These defaults are pretty much the same as used by GNOME (which is pretty > good at setting defaults, but they also by defau

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
afaik, when using kdm, dpi is guessed by X. my dpi was read on my both screens (the physical ones) and resulted in x-dpi and y-dpi (I mean the horiz and vertical dpi weren't the same). maybe then if fallbacks to 75dpi if no information is found on the hardware ... Personnaly I *manually* force