[Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

[Martin]

On 17/01/2011 18:12, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:26 +0000, Martin wrote:
>> Also to clarify, you mean:
>> - the current Lazarus displays a font that is set to 10, differently
>> than the released Lazarus 0.9.28(.2) did?
>> - or: Lazarus displays a font that is set to 10, differently than Delphi
>> (or whatever your app of reference is)?
> In my case the desktop (Gnome) was a font size of 11 (I believe this to
> be points otherwise I would not be able to read anything. Lazarus IDE
> (everything but the source editor) displayed correctly. But the source
> editor has a very small text size. Using the font dialog I had to bump
> the font size to 16pt to display like the rest of my desktop and all
> other GTK apps.
It seems there are 2 or 3 issues being mixed up:

Bo Berglund mentioned XP. So that differs from your case.

1)
Yes, I do remember the gtk change, It changed my gtk font too. IIRC 
there was a 2nd fixed, after which you would get the normal font size 
again. (but I may recall that wrong).

In any case the gtk-case refers to the issue, where the editor font size 
suddenly changed *without* any user changes to the configuration.
And I am quite sure that particular bit was looked into and corrected.

2)
Independent of this, there is 
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17694  which exists on all 
platforms, which is *not* a regression (to the best of my knowledge this 
has always been like this).
This 2nd issue, and the fact that the Lazarus editor may take it's font 
size in height, while maybe every other app takes it as size, are 
independend of the first "sudden no user gtk only change of font size" 
issue.

Yes this 2nd bug is still present in 0.9.29 fixes, like many other bugs.
It is not a secret that not all bugs can be fixed for a release. This 
bug belongs to the ones that will not be fixed for this release. Since 
it isn't a regression, I don't see why in the case of this particular 
bug, this should be any more of a problem, than with any other 
not-yet-fixed bug?

3)
As for Bo Berglund's issue, I do not know if he refers to the 2nd issue 
above, or a 3rd issue (but since he said XP, it wouldn't be the 1st)

Martin