QT-4.6 updates make font larger ?

[Armelius Cameron]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 11:02:20 pm Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > Now on KDE all fonts appear slighly larger and/or bolder. It's rather
> > obvious on Kontact/Kmail message & folder lists. But also visible
> > difference shows on the message pane / kmail compose windows. The text on
> > the Kile editor are bolder & slightly larger. The only thing I did was
> > "yup update qt". I didn't change any configuration at all.
> > 
> > Anyone else seeing this ?
> 
> This appears to be an intentional change. It makes font sizes consistent
> with GTK+ in any case. See also:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502925
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566136

Thanks, good to know. But as the other bug reporter says, it's rather 
disturbing :) Maybe I just need to get used to it. I try making the whole font 
size 1 point smaller, but that is somewhat too small... oh well, I guess I'll 
try to mesh around some more with forcing DPI settings.

AC