[Rosegarden-devel] font sizes

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

Hm.

Well, I think I've just discovered why the Qt3 menus appear
by default to be so squished up -- it's because the Xft smooth
fonts are generally a bit taller than the sometimes unnaturally-
compressed X bitmap fonts, and they've probably just been trying
to make sure the menus look okay with smooth fonts.

Which they do (I've just switched to an Xft-smoothed font, which
looks nice and also gives me some justification for having paid
real money for Adobe Myriad some years ago).

The problem is that now the hardcoded 10-pixel specification for
the segment and instrument parameter boxes looks terribly small.
But before we hardcoded that, we were finding it looked much too
big in certain setups, presumably because it was using the size
of the "general" font which is unlikely to be especially small.
What we really need to do, probably, is to ask for the default
font and then reduce it a little bit.  QFont doesn't appear to
offer any way of making tidy relative changes to font sizes; does
KDE?


Chris