[Qt-interest] Font size changes for each OS

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Silas Silva wrote:

> A badly designed application has fixed-sized widgets and fonts set on Qt
> Designer.  In a machine (with Fedora 9), fonts fit ok, in others (with
> Fedora 12 or Ubuntu) they get bigger.  What could be the cause of this
> problem?  75dpi vs. 100dpi fonts?

Did you change the DPI setting for your X server and give it 
a try?  KDE and GNOME (I think) both allow you to set this.

Sometimes, too, it can happen if the exact same fonts are 
not installed.

> I'm not going to discuss about the right and wrong ways of designing Qt
> apps.  This applications is badly designed, yeah, but I inherited this
> maintenance task.

Have you discussed it with upstream?

-gabriel