Re: tk-xconq font sizes

["Thomas J. Moore" <dark at mama dot indstate dot edu>]

On 2003.09.19 12:44 Eric McDonald wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Thomas J. Moore wrote:
> >    Thomas J. Moore, Hacker/SysAdmin | TV & video games have destroyed my
> mind
>
> Well, if you want to turn off the TV for awhile and put your
> "Hacker/SysAdmin" skills to work, you might be able to fix this
> yourself and then submit a patch. The reward: a warm, glowing
> feeling knowing that you gave something back to the OpenSource
> community.... :-)

Um, well, I suppose I could.. it has been years since I did any programming
for the "open source" community; that way I can resume letting the video games
suck the life out of me.  The quick fix I already stated in my first message,
which works fine for me:  set all the hard-coded sizes to negative numbers (I
didn't do it for the mac/windows-specific numbers).  I just searched for
-size in the .tcl file and added a - in front of any literal number. However,
this isn't necessarily the correct answer.  That's part of why I posted my
query to the list before looking into it further.   My questions would be:

1)  For the simplest solution (using pixel sizes instead of point sizes),
what size should they really be?   Just turning them negative assumes 72 dpi,
which is probably reasonable since X and Windows both seem to default to 72
advertised dpi.  On the other hand, 100 and 108 seem common as well, implying
a 30-40 percent increase in the magnitude in addition to making them 
negative.  Plus why the hell does tk on my system substitute nimbus for 
helvetica when I have a perfectly good helvetica?  tk is weird that way.

2)  For the preference solution:  What preferences should there be, and what
preferences should just be scaled up/down from given preferences?  Having too
many font choices in the GUI config dialog can be kind of silly, but I could
see manual editing or some such.

3)  For the GUI-fits-font solution:  I've (in my job) gotten in trouble
before where people for some reason really hate certain types of GUI
resizes.  I don't really know what the right thing is here.  Also, the images
will not auto-rescale along with the font, so maybe it would be odd seeing a
tiny pixmap next to a huge bit of text, especially if the GUI is somehow
gridlocked to the images.


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