Re: [Usability] Display DPI in gnome...

[Stephen Tomlinson <stephen flawed co uk>]

I'll second this. Not only is this setting set all over the shop, but
there should be cooperation between gnome, gconf, and the default for
users.

If I set the DPI for my user it works fine, but the DPI is set to relate
to my screen size, and I only have one screen. So when I set the DPI for
users, it's likely to be the same each time. Setting the DPI in to a
default, or even forced setting, for all users via the font setting for
gconf still does not rectify this as GDM ignores it.

The DPI should be a setting in the config screen for GDM and trusted as
a default from this for all users. This setting should also be the DPI
GDM calls X by.

The GIMP perhaps should have it's own setting for DPI, because it's
usage has to be more precise and related to diplaying an image at
real-life size as opposed to desired size. It should, however, use the
aformentioned GDM / X default until this is set.

Stephen

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:48, Michael R Head wrote:
> Why do I have to set the DPI in 4 different places in X? If there were a
> defined place for all apps to get this information from, it would be
> better, I think.
> 
> Here are the four places I set it:
> 1) on the X command line in gdm, with X <...> -dpi 125
> 2) in gimp (well, at least gimp gets its default from the windowing
> system)
> 3) in the font preferences page (which doesn't seem to default/link to
> the X windowing system's setting)
> 4) in gnumeric's preferences, under Various/internal, which seems to
> default to 96.
> 
> I suppose it's a minor detail, but it seems silly to have this setting
> configurable (and worse, unlinked!) in so many places.
> 
> mike
> (feeling a little ranty after losing a document due to personal
> stupidity)
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