On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Aleksey Midenkov posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:21:36 +0300 as excerpted: > >> After system upgrade window title font became enormously big. Changes of >> Window title in System Settings are ignored. > > This is the second thread on this I've seen. I can't say for sure > whether the first one was, but it must have been either one of the kde > lists (perhaps even this one), or on the plasma development list, which I > follow because I run live-git kde-frameworks/plasma/apps and which gets > CCed from plasma bugs filed on kde's bugzilla, plus the plasma-related > phabricator patch postings up for review before they get merged to the > various git repos, and it might actually have been a bug thread or > phabricator bug patch thread I'm remembering. > > Actually, given that I remember clicking links to images illustrating the > problem in the thread, it's very likely I /was/ reading it on the plasma- > devel list, and thus that it was either a bug or a phabricator issue. > > Meanwhile, I should say that I have NOT noticed the bug myself, in live- > git plasma/frameworks as I said, but that's likely explained by the > below... > > Apparently the bug affects only certain window decorations, and the one > I'm running, BlackSquare from the kde store (get new window decorations > in the window decorations kcm, aka kcontrol module, aka kde system > settings module), isn't affected, because it's an aurora-based theme, and > according to the earlier thread, aurora-based themes aren't affected. > > (I'm no windeco expert, and don't properly know to my own satisfaction > what aurora is or what makes it distinct enough from the other windeco > alternatives to not suffer from this bug (doing some research on it has > been on my low-priority to-do list for some time now, but being low > priority, it may remain there forever...), but based on browsing kdelook > and the kde store for years, it's apparently a quite popular windeco > "engine", that makes creating your own windecos reasonably easy, so much > so that there's a whole bunch of aurora-based windecos created by various > people, up on the kdestore, and kdelook, before that.) > > > On the bug/phabricator/whatever, the issue was somewhat different, > however. There, the problem was not font size, but the fact that a > user's /bold/ settings weren't being honored appropriately. As pointed > out by the user and as illustrated in the images, while the "bold" > setting did indeed make the font display slightly heavier, it was an > "emulated" (original user's word) bold, NOT the actual font in bold face > as shown in a few other images, from other elements of the UI. > > IIRC font smoothing was also affected, tho it's possible I'm mixing that > up from a separate bug, or possibly a different report of the same one, > I'm not sure. > > In any case, try choosing a different windeco (kde system settings, > application style, window decorations). Plastik shouldn't be affected as > I /believe/ it's aurora-based. Breeze is I believe the default and > affected. Oxygen is the old kde/plasma4 default, and I'm not sure > whether it's affected or not. Those are the three choices that normally > ship with plasma. As mentioned, others can be downloaded, and I'm using > the aurora-based BlackSquare as downloaded from the store, here, which > doesn't seem to be affected. > > I'll also see if I can find that other thread and post a link to it. I use Plastik, it is affected. Oxygen and Breeze aren't affected, but they have horrible height: like 7% of my screen is used by window title, that's ridiculous. air-oxygen has normal height but it is affected. I can't use BlackSquare -- it is a nightmare, sorry. BTW, not only window title is broken, but annotation font in systray. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman >
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