Comment 22 for bug 345189

I'd like to add a few things:

- People unhappy with the font sizes can change them back manually in System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts. I'm not implying that I think that 13.333 is a good default value, though.

- The other day's update managed to change the font sizes for only three of the five categories listed in Appearance > Fonts. "Window title font" and "Desktop font" remained at 10. This resulted in very odd combinations of fonts. I would understand this if I had explicitly set those two to 10, but I hadn't (neither on my desktop or on my laptop), so I suspect this is a mistake in the update.

- I would like to know, on which grounds was 13.333 chosen as a good default value? Or as a better default than 10, in any case?

- About the 'px', how come 13.333px (not 13.333pt) responds to the DPI setting?

- And about DPI settings, I think it's not a terribly good idea to scale fonts to have fixed physical sizes across different monitors. On my 12" laptop I expect to see the same amount of stuff as on my 19" monitor, only smaller. I've done a test in which I set the correct DPI on both computers, open a terminal with the same font size on both and put them side by side. Indeed, the physical sizes are the same, as intended. But - what looks OK on my desktop looks way too big on my laptop, and what looks OK on my laptop looks way too small on my desktop. A 9" netbook would be a lot worse. I think that the ability to set the correct DPI value is useful, but the default font sizes should be pixel sizes, not physical sizes.

BTW, even on my desktop (19", 1280x1024, 86 DPI) the 13.333 default looks too big indeed. My 12" laptop panel has 126 DPI, so it's much worse there. I've reset both my computers to 96dpi, 10px, which I quite like...