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Turn the font size up to 11
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Why change at all:

  • The default font sizes (8-10pt) are a bit too small for 1920x1080 screens.
  • Users complain about the appearance of text and small text never really looks good unless it's bitmapped.

Why 11pt:

  • 10pt works well for 1366x768, but as stated before, it's too small for 1080p.
  • 11pt isn't that bad for 1366x768, but 12pt makes the UI take up way too much space at that resolution.
  • 11pt is an appreciable difference in size for 1080p.
  • Other desktop environments like GNOME use 11pt as the default font size.

Font size suggestions:

  • General: 11 (+1)
  • Fixed Width: 11 (+2) or 12 (+3)
    • Why was this smaller than general text?
    • When Fixed Width is used, it's usually in a context where a lot of text has to be read carefully.
  • Small: 9 (+1)
  • Toolbar: 11 (+2)
    • This doesn't seem to be used. Remove/hide?
  • Menu: 11 (+1)
    • This doesn't seem to be used. Remove/hide?
  • Window Title: 11 (+1)

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ndavis created this task.Jan 1 2020, 9:10 AM
ndavis closed this task as Invalid.Jan 1 2020, 10:01 AM

Apparently there were prior discussions that I forgot about because they weren't written down. The consensus seems to be that the font size and scaling should be set by default based on the physical DPI.

ngraham added a subscriber: ngraham.Jan 1 2020, 6:02 PM

Previous discussions were written down. See T7864 (for Kubuntu) and D14869 (for all of KDE).

Maybe you can start a Phab task to discuss the conclusion of setting the font size or scale factor by default based on physical DPI? I don't think we have one.

Also, if the Menu and Toolbar sizes are not actually used, we should definitely hide them from the KCM.