Re: row and column size not being preserved when switching X displays

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:00:45AM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 08:56, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:45:42PM +0100, Joe Wells (reverse mailbox letters only for non-public replies) 
> > wrote:
> > > How can I get this fixed?  If I knew what source code lines to hack
> > > on, I could do it, but I am way too busy to learn now.  I am happy to
> > > test patches that anyone sends me.
> >
> > Gnumeric stores things as pts.  However, it defaults to using 96 dpi
> > for the display, which is what XL appears to do.  You can edit the
> > settings in the prefs dialog.  When the code was written most X
> > servers got the dpi measurements wrong, we should probably add a
> > setting to trust them now.
>
> The pref dialog does not have these settings anymore. (REcall that you
> requested not to include those internal settings.) One now has to use
> the gconf-editor to change them.

True, but 1.2.x still has them.
For 1.3.x I'd like to add a way to 'use monitor dpi'
a clear plan.  Possible via dpi < 0 or potentially another flag.