https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445647
Bug ID: 445647
Summary: Plasma default font size assumes a broken Xorg, but
misleadingly advertises it doesn't
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: anthony.vi...@gmail.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
You're probably aware of the root issue, but let me do a recap:
The default font size in plasma is 10pt, which theoreticaly translates to
roughly 3.5mm on screen, regardless of the physical size of the screen. This is
obviously not something anyone want for a sane default font size. 10pt looks
good on most X11 machines because of the bug in xorg that fails to properly
detect the physical size of a screen and returns a dpi of 96 as a result, does
exist on most of X11 machines (apparently, considering how the bug was recently
fixed and then immediately unfixed because people were complaing). On those
machines, if they have a ppi of 144 like most screens nowadays, 10pt is 2.4mm,
much better.
The problem I want to report is about the "force font DPI" option in the
systems settings. Its not enabled by default, and the tooltip says to enable it
if "the real DPI of the hardware is not detected properly". If you're going
with a default 10pt font size, you should force the 96dpi by default too, and
say "uncheck this if your xorg is properly configured and adjust your font
size". Or choose a saner default font size like 7 or 8, and let "force font
DPI" unckecked and the tooltip text as it is. But then I assume lots of people
would be complaining their fonts are too big (they don't want to be bothered
configuring their xorg properly if it were "working" for them before...)
I don't want to tell you what to do or what to choose, I just want to point out
the inconsistency of what plasma actually does
and the "force font DPI" checkbox+tooltip.
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