On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:44 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > 96x96 should be the default. I don't know why it isn't. No. The DPI should be set to the values that actually represent the hardware. Font sizing, and the like, should be set by picking the font size you want, not buggering up the DPI. Set that wrong, and you make it impossible for other things to do their job right. Graphics card pixel counts are the number of dots per scan line that you have available to draw something with (definition). Visual display device DPI is the tiniest noticeable detail that can be resolved. The two are interrelated, but people often get one thing wrong - with CRTs it's still quite good to draw to the display with more detail than it can display, you get smoother detail. For LCDs, you really need 1:1 configuration between graphics card and display device. GUI sizing, an important and often overlooked thing, should be set as an independent value. That used to be easily done on window managers that I've seen in the past. Tiny buttons are a major pain, and so is the converse - absurdly huge buttons wasting space on low resolution displays. Anyone who thinks that increasing the resolution *should* create smaller fonts, or GUI gadgets, has got it extremely wrong. And that includes all the programmers who stupidly do that. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
