Tim: >> 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. Chris Adams: > Setting the DPI to the display's value is not the same as "futzing" > it. A prior post talked about changing the DPI, which I take to mean changing it from the real value, to a fake one. i.e. Futzing it means faking the DPI to cause the system to scale all graphics abnormally. Setting it correctly, whether automatically or manually would be the right thing to do. Probably even more so when you have a system that does anti-aliasing of text. > - A single DPI setting is really not correct, as multi-display setups > can be different size, resolution, etc. Also, notebooks switching > from internal display to external (even if both aren't active at the > same time) can cause changes. In all those cases, the DPI setting, as well as other screen settings, all pertain to a particular display. It *would* be seriously wrong to set it once for one display, then have every other display set wrong. And a seriously misdesigned system that cannot provide proper configuration for each monitor, independently. There are three parameter to a screen display, and the third can be worked out from the other two: Actual screen size, in real measurements (inches, centimetres, feet, whatever), in both directions. Pixel count in both directions. And the DPI, in both directions. -- [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
