Several days ago (unfortunately, I don' remember the precise date) after current upgrade the font in Digital Clock widget in the panel suddenly became very small. It happened in the same day independently in Neon unstable and in openSUSE Leap with Plasma unstable repos. In KaOS it did not happen yet. When I increase height of the panel, the font becomes normal, but when I decrease it back to height which I prefer, it again becomes small.

Big font and icon sizes on master: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-d ... 55717.html

Jan Kundrát
Fri Jul 8 19:35:08 UTC 2016

...after my recent upgrade of all of KF5 and Plasma to git master from git
master from around 2016-06-21, the icon sizes in the System Tray and the
font size in my clock applet are now huge...

Here there are some pictures reflecting the situation more vividly.

The first one snows how the right side of the panel used to look before these unlucky upgrades happened (and how it still looks in KaOS):



And here how it looks now in openSUSE Leap with reasonable (on my taste) panel height. One can see that clock font is very small:



After increasing panel height the systray icons become huge, but clock font is still small:



And after further panel height increasing finally the font gets more-or-less normal size, but the systray icons and panel height are huge outside the reasonable range:



So, the lilipute font is the best of a bad bunch, but it is unconvenient and looks ugly.

It seems I have found the cause of such behaviour! Here is the patch which just returns everything to previous state:

root@vishap-desktop:/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.digitalclock/contents/ui# diff -u /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.digitalclock/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml.old /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.digitalclock/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml
--- /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.digitalclock/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml.old 2016-07-12 21:38:24.000000000 +0300
+++ /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.digitalclock/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml 2016-06-30 18:10:31.000000000 +0300
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@
family: plasmoid.configuration.fontFamily || theme.defaultFont.family
weight: plasmoid.configuration.boldText ? Font.Bold : Font.Normal
italic: plasmoid.configuration.italicText
+ pixelSize: 1024
pointSize: 1024
}

@@ -430,6 +431,7 @@

font.weight: timeLabel.font.weight
font.italic: timeLabel.font.italic
+ font.pixelSize: 1024
font.pointSize: 1024
minimumPixelSize: 0

@@ -447,6 +449,7 @@
font.family: timeLabel.font.family
font.weight: timeLabel.font.weight
font.italic: timeLabel.font.italic
+ font.pixelSize: 1024
font.pointSize: 1024
minimumPixelSize: 0

@@ -462,6 +465,7 @@
font.family: timeLabel.font.family
font.weight: timeLabel.font.weight
font.italic: timeLabel.font.italic
+ font.pixelSize: 1024
font.pointSize: 1024

verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter

So, 2 month are passed, but the problem still exists. I had found its cause and proposed the patch which returns everything to previous state. Can we hope for fixing it in foreseeble future? The microscopic font size in Digital Clock is exteremely inconvenient and irritating.

Menak Vishap wrote:So, 2 month are passed, but the problem still exists. I had found its cause and proposed the patch which returns everything to previous state. Can we hope for fixing it in foreseeble future? The microscopic font size in Digital Clock is exteremely inconvenient and irritating.

Have you reported your problem to the plasma developers ?
i.e - Have you filed a bug report / looked the existing one and added your comments ? ( https://bugs.kde.org )



A workaround, at here, is to use 'My Digital Clock': viewtopic.php?f=17&t=134970&p=361132#p361132