On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:56 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > 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? > > Are you also proposing to automatically resize all windows when you move > them from one display to another ? There lies the road to disaster an > pain imo. > > At least untill all rendering is done with something like svg and not > with absolute pixel values this is just going to be a very bad > experience. I'm more trying to think ahead about what's going to happen when our current convenient assumptions break down than making specific technical proposals. It just doesn't seem to me like a winning strategy to keep working on the basis that we can simply assume one notional DPI for all displays; sooner or later, given where display technology is going, this is likely to break down. (Unless we just go with what happened when we switched from 72dpi to 96dpi, I guess: wait until some arbitrary 'tipping point' in the adoption of hi-res displays and then say 'okay, new notional dpi is 200, get used to it'. But there may be too long of an overlap period for that to be practical.) -- 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
