Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2019-02-10 00:58 (UTC+0100):

> Anno domini 2019 Sat, 9 Feb 18:49:48 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
>> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2019-02-10 00:36 (UTC+0100):

>>> I just upgraded my devuan boxes to beowulf. Most things work as expected, but there are 2 issues that just kill my nerves:

>>> 2) DPI settings are not correct anymore: I have dpi set to 120 via tde controlcenter. After the upgrade gtk2-applications still use 120 dpi, but TDE ignores the dpi-settings, it uses 96. Now this is quite irritating.

>> Where do you see it report 96?

> Nowhere. I just mesured the ratio from fonts in applications that did not change (e.g. menu in libreoffice) and compare it to fonts in applications that changed (e.g. menu in kmail): Result is that kmail fonts are ~ 20% smaller than before --> ~ 96 dpi.

Which Kmail, TDE's, or KDE5's?

Which apps besides Kmail have small fonts? Are any of them using QT5, GTK3 or GTK4?

Do any of these apps allow to choose font family and/or font size directly, rather than inheriting
from DE settings? *buntu*fonts and *fonts*buntu* tend to render a physical size or two less than
the majority of other families of identical nominal size. DPI typically plays a role in whether or
not this happens or for which nominal sizes. http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html
among others can be used to notice this. e.g.:

http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/ubuntuAREsmaller120.jpg

Shows Ubuntu Mono is same size as Inconsolata at 12pt, but larger at 10pt, yet it's smaller than
most others whether at 10pt or 12pt.

The differences are different at 96 DPI:

http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/ubuntuAREsmaller096.jpg

Note in these images that the only font requested by the page that is not installed is Courier.
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