On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 17:40 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Ideally, the X server has the correct DPIs > and the application is written to use them. > The application can discover the number of pixels in a 12pt font > and enlarge or not depending on the answer and the purpose. > Given that many applications don't do that, > lying about the DPIs is a perfectly sensible thing to do. > That isn't good for applications that would otherwise do the right > thing. The problem is that when you abuse something to fake something to suit someone who doesn't know how to do things right, you break things that everyone else *needs* to work properly. Because it's done WRONG, we can't use it right. We can't specify our DPI correctly, and get fonts drawn correctly. We have to bodge *everything*, and *nothing* is correct. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.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
