Public bug reported: This results from incorrectly assuming that everybody has a 96 dpi screen.
In KDE settings you can configure gtk applications appearence to use the qtcurve style that makes gnome apps consistent in look with kde apps and - most important - allows their appearance to be controlled from the kde system settings. Furthermore in KDE settings you can configure the screen dpi. Whenever you have a laptop with a good screen resolution, the ubuntu default to ignore edid and assume that all screens are 96dpi makes everything unreadable. So you need using the kde settings to set the dpi to something better. For instance 120 dpi. It is unfortunate that this breaks everything. Sad. Even windows can be set to use 120dpi. Some gtk apps follow the qtcurve settings and work OK. Synaptics for instance. All gtk-3 apps do not have qtcurve customisation and need to have gtkrc-3.0 files manually created, otherwise menuy fonts get too big. Some gtk-2.0 applications want to do things their own way and need gtkrc files to be specially created. Emacs is among them. It needs a .gtkrc file with fonts settings in .emacs.d/ otherwise its menu fonts become to big. Some gtk-2.0 applications just seem to ignore anything and to be completely undocomented with regards to theming. Gimp is among them. Apparently there is no way to achieve a sane menu font size in gimp in kubuntu at 120dpi. ** Affects: gimp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925371 Title: gimp menu font size is wrong, does not follow qtcurve settings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/925371/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs