Adam Williamson wrote on Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 07:08:33PM -0700: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:24 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 04:17:08PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > For fedora users, as others have mentioned, perhaps a UI that lets > > > users test a couple of possible dpi values might be useful (for those > > > users so inclined). It does have to cross a good chunk of the stack to > > > work well, and seems like a lot of work to get right; but the xrandr > > > improvements are a start. > > > Windows used to have a gui that would show a ruler on your monitor and > > say "hold a real ruler up to this and slide the slider until its the > > same size." Given what's been said about how windows handles DPI I can > > only wonder what it did, but it might be a nice thing to have. > > I think it was more some specific app that did that, wasn't it? I'm > almost sure it was either Paint Shop Pro or the GIMP, because obviously, > actual physical accuracy is quite important there. Otherwise it was > something like Office. It was definitely some specific app where WYSIWYG > was important, not an OS. A specific app may have done it as well, but before Vista, the DPI settings dialog box in the Control Panel had that feature. -mat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
