On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:02 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 s/F21/F22/ -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
