Bug 4414

Summary:	DPI change doesn't affect KDE main applications
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tico Perez <entidad_universal>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	John Balcaen <balcaen.john>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	nic
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA2TOO
Source RPM:	kdebase4-workspace	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Tico Perez 2012-02-05 11:42:44 CET

Description of problem:

Changing the dpi settings in KDE system-settings only affects GTK applications, qt applications and some KDE applications, but not the main ones (dolphon, kwrite, plasma itself, etc)


More info:

Since the friday, the text size of most of my kde applications suddenly is much smaller than what it is specified in the dpi setting in system-settings (96 dpi).

I've noticed that changing the dpi setting affects gtk applications, qt applications and some KDE applications (kmess, juk, amarok, kdiff3, some games) while main kde applications (dolphin, kate, kwrite, konqueror, plasma itself, etc) still have the same small text regardless of how big the dpi setting is.

System reboots don't help at all with the issue.

Comment 1 Tico Perez 2012-02-05 18:57:44 CET

Some more info: when opening dolphin, kwrite, etc with a command in konsole, they have proper font size.

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-05 23:22:32 CET

Same as this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268096 ?

Source RPM: unknown => (none)

Comment 3 Tico Perez 2012-02-06 10:15:04 CET

It is not exactly same bug, because that bug seems to happen to every appplication, while in this one it only happens to the main kde programs.

Anyways, I can confirm that the .fonts.conf hack doesn't work with this bug either.

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-09 16:15:08 CET

So it's this one https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273343 and related ( c#2)  :p

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM
Assignee: bugsquad => balcaen.john
Source RPM: (none) => kdebase4-workspace

Comment 5 Tico Perez 2012-02-13 00:43:59 CET

Yes that looks more like it. Someone posted some workaround in the mageia forum:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1855

The workaround doesn't mean that the bug doesn't exist, but at least it works as a fix.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:04:29 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-12 21:14:00 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA2TOO

Comment 7 Nic Baxter 2015-02-11 06:30:20 CET

Tested using Mageia 5 

Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3
kde4-config: 1.0
works as expected so close report

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => nic
Resolution: (none) => FIXED