On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) > Good point here "Apple can afford it as they control both HW and SW". > > Let us take an example: say we have 14" and a 15" laptop with same physical > resolution. If the logic is simply to scale a factor 2 if DPI exceeds a > certain fixed threshold, it may happen that this threshold is exceeded on > the 14" screen and not on the 15" and icons, controls, text etc.will be > printed to the screen almost twice as big on the 14" screen as compared to > the 15". This makes little sense to me. The small one may have a better > quality monitor and could in some cases actually better be able to cope with > unscaled display than the bigger one. An one person may be able to (and may > prefer to) ane another person may not. > > > 2) > "The web has a concept of device pixels vs css pixels as well". Does > anybody know how Chromebooks handle it? That could bring a new perspective > into discussion. Which discussion actually? It is not clear to me what are you asking here. You asked a question it got answered. The other mails are basically 1) Don't take control away from the user --- no one is doing that 2) Give us a non integer scaling factor --- you have been told why it is not feasible 3) Multimonitor --- as already stated this requires wayland and will be hopefully done for F21 -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
