On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:44 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 12:31 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 18:49 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > > So, ok, now you have some belief about the DPI. But which DPI? If you're > > > dual head, you've got two. Unless they match you're screwed - there's no > > > magic way to get applications to reflow text just because you've moved > > > the window between screens, and what would you do with a window that's > > > halfway between? You can argue that this is a corner case and obviously > > > yes it's a corner case but if you can't even pretend to fix the corner > > > case then your solution isn't a solution any more than 96dpi is. > > > > There's no _magic_ way to fix anything, no. Things get fixed by code > > writers writing code. That would seem to be the obvious thing to do... > > > > Like I replied to ajax, I suspect when the problem of assuming > > everything's 96dpi becomes simply too acute, instead of fixing > > everything really properly so that all displays correct report their > > size and all desktops actually do resolution independence perfectly so > > it doesn't _matter_ if one of your displays is 98dpi and the other is > > 215dpi, everything still looks perfect, the industry will just wind up > > with a slightly more sophisticated bodge where we have a few 'standard' > > resolutions and just figure out which one your displays are closest to. > > But that's still going to require some kind of sensible handling of the > > case where one monitor is roughly 100dpi and the other is roughly > > 200dpi, unless we simply say 'you can't do that, all your displays have > > to be in the same DPI Category'. > > Are you saying fonts should change on the fly when I move an app between > 2 monitors that have different DPIs ? If they're sufficiently different in DPI, sure. Or would you really want everything to suddenly become twice as small if you were moving a window from a 100dpi monitor to a 200dpi one? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
