Re: [xine-devel] xitk chooses wrong font sizes

[Hans-Dieter K. <hd...@t-...>]

Hi,

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> tags 288734 upstream
> stop
> 
> CC'ing xine-devel, because I'm not sure how to proceed from here.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:45:33PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> 
>>For me, the font is to large. I remember that, a long time ago, it
>>worked, althoug then I had another display with a different resolution.
>>
>>I suspect that xine calculates the layout using absolute pixels, but
>>selects the font using points instead of pixels, so it fails on
>>different DPI values.
> 
> 
> Thats right. The font is choosen in xine-ui/src/xitk/setup.c:
> 
> ---
> static char                     *fontname     = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
> static char                     *boldfontname = "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
> static char                     *tabsfontname = "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
> ---
> 
> What should xitk do instead in your opinion? How do you calculate the
> correct fontsize and how to query the current resolution from within
> xitk?
> 
Right, I suppose you're using Xft. There were some bugs. I've committed 
a patch some time ago addressing exactly this problem to 
xine-ui/src/xitk/xine-toolkit/font.c r1.43. Are you up to date with CVS 
or do you use a precompiled binary package?

Cheers,
Hans-Dieter