[bug #21625] Big default font with GNUstep-startup-0.19.0

[Maurizio Tomasi]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?21625>

                 Summary: Big default font with GNUstep-startup-0.19.0
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: zio_tom78
            Submitted on: Wednesday 11/21/2007 at 13:31
                Category: Gui/AppKit
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I have made a fresh install of GNUstep-startup-0.19.0 on my laptop running
Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (gutsy) with WindowMaker 0.92.0. After having compiled and
installed everything with the InstallGNUstep script, I tried to compile some
other GNUstep applications, and found that the default font size for menus and
dialogs is really large.

- The first image shows a comparison of the menu for Terminal.app with the
Gnome Terminal running in background. The "right" size IMHO should be the one
used by Gnome.

- The second image shows the Gorm Preferences window. The font size is so
large that the text of the "Remove" button has been clipped. (This however
could be due to Gorm and not to GNUstep itself.)

I have tried to discover the size of the system font, but the following
command did not provide any answer:

$ defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSFontSize
defaults read: couldn't read default

$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSFontSize 10

Still, it would have been nice for GNUstep to detect the "right" font size
itself.



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