From: Hans Ronne <hronne@telia.com>
To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: tk-xconq font sizes
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l03130302bb90fe523a49@[212.181.162.155]> (raw)
>Since so many entity sizes are fixed-sized using pixel-sizes, why are the
>fonts fixed-sized in point sizes? On my 128dpi X display, the interface
>looks horrible (text severely overruns the space allotted everywhere).
>Changing all the fixed font sizes in tkconq.tcl to negative numbers of the
>same magnitude (thus assuming a 72dpi display) makes everything return to
>half-way normal. The font sizes should probably either be user-adjustable
>(where applicable, at least with map lablels perhaps) or be negative (i.e.,
>pixel-sized, not point-sized), or the interface should change size in
>relation to the fonts (you can't always expect someone's "helvetica" to be
>the same as adobe's helvetica). There are definitely places for each of the
>three approaches. Note that 7.4 suffers the same problem in some places, but
>it's not as obvious for some reason (perhaps smaller default fonts).
I'll see what I can do. Somebody with an 800 x 600 screen complained about
the same thing a while ago. Fonts in the tcltk interface are pesky because
their implementations differ a lot between the three supported platforms.
Your suggestion about negative sizes seems like a good idea provided that
it also works under Windows and MacOS.
Hans
next reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-19 18:55 Hans Ronne [this message]
[not found] <20030919125716.B22061@moore.indstate.edu>
2003-09-19 18:42 ` Thomas J. Moore
2003-09-19 22:04 ` Hans Ronne
[not found] <20030919114723.B21473@moore.indstate.edu>
2003-09-19 17:23 ` Thomas J. Moore
2003-09-19 17:26 ` Eric McDonald
2003-09-19 17:44 ` Thomas J. Moore
2003-09-19 18:11 ` Eric McDonald
2003-09-20 5:36 ` Hans Ronne
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