Calibre Look Change?

Rand Brittain · 11-13-2010, 11:41 PM

The last few updates for Calibre seem to have changed the way it looks; the first altering the font used in the metadata viewer, and the latest altering the font used everywhere, so that it's no longer my system default (in Ubuntu). Is this an intentional change, or a bug? I can't say I like the look of it.

kovidgoyal · 11-14-2010, 01:09 AM

calibre does not now, nor has it ever specified what font to use in the interface.

Rand Brittain · 11-14-2010, 01:28 AM

Hm. Any idea, then, why the font used in the list of books changed (or possibly shrank) when I updated Calibre today? It's definitely not my system default, and I'd as soon be using that.

kovidgoyal · 11-14-2010, 01:59 AM

most likely a theme incompatibility. calibre just switched to using qt 4.7 in the binary builds, probably your system default qt theme is incompatible, and so it using a different theme.

phenomshel · 11-14-2010, 10:11 PM

Same thing happened here, Kovid. I didn't mind the change, though, so I didn't think too much of it until I saw the original post, above.
The font within calibre on my Windows 7 machine has definitely changed.

kovidgoyal · 11-15-2010, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Same thing happened here, Kovid. I didn't mind the change, though, so I didn't think too much of it until I saw the original post, above.
The font within calibre on my Windows 7 machine has definitely changed.

That would be because of the upgrade to Qt. The windows 7 support in Qt 4.7 had a lot of work, perhaps that included a different algorithm for settling ona default font.

phenomshel · 11-15-2010, 02:41 AM

Cool. I didn't figure it as a flaw... I actually LIKE the different font.

Rand Brittain · 11-15-2010, 12:14 PM

Hm, I'd try to confirm this by installing Qtconfig and fiddling with it, but it seems to have some dependency issues at the moment.

Rand Brittain · 11-15-2010, 05:59 PM

Huh, I had to install KDE to fiddle with it, but I was eventually able to make the fonts a bit bigger and convince them to render properly. There seem to be a few bugs in between Qt applications and displaying properly in GNOME. I ultimately went into KControl (qtconfig having no effect whatsoever) and set the hinting to Slight and the DPI to a fixed setting, and was able to get the font looking properly thick again.

The Book Details pane is also a blank white box with text in it rather than matching the colors of the system theme.

Rand Brittain · 11-15-2010, 06:15 PM

I see! Apparently some other file was interfering with qtconfig for some reason. I performed:

rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf

and reconfigured Qtconfig, setting it to GTK+, and now the fonts are nice and readable. The Book Details pane is still not matching the theme colors, though.

kovidgoyal · 11-15-2010, 06:18 PM

The book details panel is set to use the same background color as text edit widgets.

Rand Brittain · 11-15-2010, 06:41 PM

I don't quite know how to change that in GNOME, but I'd as soon turn the panel off, since I don't keep enough tags to make it worthwhile.

11-13-2010, 11:41 PM	#1
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Calibre Look Change? The last few updates for Calibre seem to have changed the way it looks; the first altering the font used in the metadata viewer, and the latest altering the font used everywhere, so that it's no longer my system default (in Ubuntu). Is this an intentional change, or a bug? I can't say I like the look of it.

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11-14-2010, 01:09 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,826 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre does not now, nor has it ever specified what font to use in the interface.

11-14-2010, 01:28 AM	#3
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Hm. Any idea, then, why the font used in the list of books changed (or possibly shrank) when I updated Calibre today? It's definitely not my system default, and I'd as soon be using that.

11-14-2010, 01:59 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,826 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	most likely a theme incompatibility. calibre just switched to using qt 4.7 in the binary builds, probably your system default qt theme is incompatible, and so it using a different theme.

11-14-2010, 10:11 PM	#5
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Same thing happened here, Kovid. I didn't mind the change, though, so I didn't think too much of it until I saw the original post, above. The font within calibre on my Windows 7 machine has definitely changed.

11-15-2010, 02:41 AM	#7
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Cool. I didn't figure it as a flaw... I actually LIKE the different font.

11-15-2010, 12:14 PM	#8
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Hm, I'd try to confirm this by installing Qtconfig and fiddling with it, but it seems to have some dependency issues at the moment.

11-15-2010, 05:59 PM	#9
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Huh, I had to install KDE to fiddle with it, but I was eventually able to make the fonts a bit bigger and convince them to render properly. There seem to be a few bugs in between Qt applications and displaying properly in GNOME. I ultimately went into KControl (qtconfig having no effect whatsoever) and set the hinting to Slight and the DPI to a fixed setting, and was able to get the font looking properly thick again. The Book Details pane is also a blank white box with text in it rather than matching the colors of the system theme.

11-15-2010, 06:15 PM	#10
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	I see! Apparently some other file was interfering with qtconfig for some reason. I performed: rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf and reconfigured Qtconfig, setting it to GTK+, and now the fonts are nice and readable. The Book Details pane is still not matching the theme colors, though.

11-15-2010, 06:18 PM	#11
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,826 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The book details panel is set to use the same background color as text edit widgets.

11-15-2010, 06:41 PM	#12
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	I don't quite know how to change that in GNOME, but I'd as soon turn the panel off, since I don't keep enough tags to make it worthwhile.

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