How to change text size in toolbars, sidebar, etc.?

[Chris Green]

How can you change the text size in the toolbars, sidebars, etc.?

I'm running 0.9.5 beta1 on xubuntu 8.10 and the text size is larger
than it was on my Fedora 8 system and I'd like to make it smaller.

I tried reducing the font size in my Settings Manager - User Interface
applet but that seems to have reduced the size everywhere *except* in
digikam.

If it's a KDE setting then I need to know what KDE configuration
utility to run please, I don't run a KDE desktop.

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[David Talmage-2]

Chris G wrote:
> How can you change the text size in the toolbars, sidebars, etc.?
> ...
> If it's a KDE setting then I need to know what KDE configuration
> utility to run please, I don't run a KDE desktop.

I asked a similar question a few weeks ago.  Like you, I use Digikam but
not KDE.  After sharpening my Google-fu, I found this today:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1082543

which led me to change my ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals file to include
font settings in the "General" section:

[General]
fixed=Monospace,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
font=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
menuFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
taskbarFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
toolBarFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0


These settings work on the 10-inch display of my netbook.  I can now see
all of Digikam's beautiful user interface without plugging in an
external monitor.

FWIW, I also change the Gnome font settings to use subpixel smoothing
and full hinting.  I don't know if that's important or not.

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[gerlos]

Chris G ha scritto:

> How can you change the text size in the toolbars, sidebars, etc.?
>
> I'm running 0.9.5 beta1 on xubuntu 8.10 and the text size is larger
> than it was on my Fedora 8 system and I'd like to make it smaller.
>
> I tried reducing the font size in my Settings Manager - User Interface
> applet but that seems to have reduced the size everywhere *except* in
> digikam.
>
> If it's a KDE setting then I need to know what KDE configuration
> utility to run please, I don't run a KDE desktop

In KDE you usually set font size for various elements of the interface
using kcontrol. I'm not sure, but if you installed digikam and use gnome
it could be already  installed, it should be in kde-base, but since I
work in KDE I'm not sure about it.

Anyway, the configuration of KDE is in simple text configuration files,
so you could edit them by hand to fit your needs.

regards
gerlos

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[David Talmage-2]

gerlos wrote:
> Chris G ha scritto:
>> How can you change the text size in the toolbars, sidebars, etc.?
>>  ...
> In KDE you usually set font size for various elements of the interface
> using kcontrol. I'm not sure, but if you installed digikam and use gnome
> it could be already  installed, it should be in kde-base, but since I
> work in KDE I'm not sure about it.
 > ...

kcontrol isn't automatically installed along with the digikam
dependencies.  On Ubuntu, at least, we get just enough to run programs
that use the kde libraries.  Alas, that doesn't include kcontrol.
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[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/30 David Talmage <[hidden email]>:

> gerlos wrote:
>> Chris G ha scritto:
>>> How can you change the text size in the toolbars, sidebars, etc.?
>>>  ...
>> In KDE you usually set font size for various elements of the interface
>> using kcontrol. I'm not sure, but if you installed digikam and use gnome
>> it could be already  installed, it should be in kde-base, but since I
>> work in KDE I'm not sure about it.
>  > ...
>
> kcontrol isn't automatically installed along with the digikam
> dependencies.  On Ubuntu, at least, we get just enough to run programs
> that use the kde libraries.  Alas, that doesn't include kcontrol

In 8.10 there is no kcontrol. I think it has been removed in KDE4.

/ Jonas
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[Chris Green]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:54:36AM -0500, David Talmage wrote:

> Chris G wrote:
> > How can you change the text size in the toolbars, sidebars, etc.?
> > ...
> > If it's a KDE setting then I need to know what KDE configuration
> > utility to run please, I don't run a KDE desktop.
>
> I asked a similar question a few weeks ago.  Like you, I use Digikam but
> not KDE.  After sharpening my Google-fu, I found this today:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1082543
>
> which led me to change my ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals file to include
> font settings in the "General" section:
>
> [General]
> fixed=Monospace,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
> font=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
> menuFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
> taskbarFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
> toolBarFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
>

Thanks, that should work for me too (maybe with different font sizes
of course).  
>

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