On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 20:59 +0930, Tim wrote: > Um, you seem to have missed the POINT about how to set font sizes, pun > intended. If the fonts *really* were 16 pixels as the program likes > to > pretend, on one screen they'd look like flea poo, on another they'd be > quite big. Setting font sizes using pixels as the reference point is > an > incredibly DUMB way to do it, made even more worse by not actually > using > the pixel as the size (it's scaled, yet still calling itself pixel > size). You can see that nasty effect when you do calibrate a system > properly, putting the *real* DPI into your configuration (that's the > dots per inch that's available to draw with, not something else). I agree, but I suspect the real culprit is the X image model, which deals with pixel-level coordinates for describing screen positions and sizes. A resolution-independant model would avoid this, but it's probably too late ... poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
