Re: gnome DPI autocalculating



W liście z pon, 17-11-2003, godz. 15:45, Owen Taylor pisze: 
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:08, Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote:
> > URL: http://krzak.linux.net.pl/gnome/dpi/
> > 
> > there you can find are patches against :
> > control-center-2.4.0
> > gnome-desktop-2.4.1.1
> > 
> > That allow to enable/disable automatic DPI calculation in GNOME.
> > 
> > Just in case if anybody need it.
> > What do you think ?
> > 
> > 
> > PS. in addition there are various patches that we use in PLD against
> > control-center if somebody need :
> > http://krzak.linux.net.pl/gnome/control-center/
> 
> I can't think of any cases where you want the font DPI to follow what
> the monitor reports. There are two possibilities:
> 
>  A) The monitor is wrong (happens frequently)
>  
>  B) The monitor is right
> 
> In B) you'd think you'd want to use the resolution, but actually:
> 
>  * It's not what user's want. User's typically, when they reduce
>    the resolution, do that to make fonts (etc.) bigger.
> 
>  * Angular resolution is far more important than linear resolution;
>    you don't want 3pt fonts on your 10-foot projection screen
> 
> In the ideal world of 200dpi screens and all graphics scalable,
> DPI will become a simpler thing to manage - though still it's really
> the overall "scale" and that won't necessarily correspond to physical
> DPI. But in the current world, keeping the point_size => pixel number
> fixed at 96 is right for most users, and letting it be set manually
> should be sufficient power for the rest.


I know that all, really..... 

my way is to be able set it if somebody need it (work with a lot
desktops different resolutions and dpi changes works for him)

the other problem is difference between gnome dpi and ex. kde dpi
etc.... this is why the same font size do not match with kde etc....

my question is rather why 96 by default ? why not 75 (as it is more
default even if "dcc" module for X do not work and you make a simple
calculations), afaik kde have 75 but not sure how they get it.



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