Allegedly, on or about 27 March 2014, Suvayu Ali sent: > I think you can fix this by configuring your fonts to be higher dpi > (on XFCE I can do this in Settings >> Appearance >> Fonts). With the > fonts bigger, I think your desktop environment will choose bigger > icons automatically. Futzing the DPI is not really a good idea, and should only be done as a last resort. Firstly, GUI designers ought to make it easy for user to select the font AND icon sizes that they want, properly. If people stopped futzing the DPI, there might be more pressure placed on them to do that. When you mis-set the DPI, you lose the ability for applications to show "actual size" objects. Such as graphics designers, or desktop publishers, who want to design something with real-world measurements (i.e. centimeters, not pixels), and have the program show it at life size on their monitor. Which it can do, when DPI is set right, as the physical size of the monitor screen is known, the pixels across and down it, and what DPI it uses. You also get screwy results across programs, where some use X to render text, and others do their own thing, so the text in some things is the size you want, and ridiculously too small or large in other programs (e.g. your web browser versus your word processors, versus your command line interfaces, versus your menus). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
