On 10/05/2011 07:49 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > But what about the single monitor case? Let's go back to your Vaio. It's > got a high DPI screen, so let's adjust to that. Now you're happy. Right > up until you plug in an external monitor and now when you run any > applications on the external display your fonts are twice the size they > should be. WOOHOO GO TEAM of course that won't make us look like > amateurs at all. So you need another heuristic to handle that, and of > course "heuristic" is an ancient african word meaning "maybe bonghits > will make this problem more tractable". > Heh, I don't know about Adam's Vaio, but mine (the now-discontinued 13" Y, a.k.a. Vaio-S-with-ULV-without-optical-drive) has all sorts of strange quirks (e.g. totally broken ACPI backlight interface; Matthew would remember this) -- and it turns out that it did what ajax noted earlier too: xrandr reports a 0x0 physical screen size. *sigh*. So much for quality products. But maybe a quick 'I know I have a 13.3" widescreen laptop, you know the resolution, just make things work' should work for the single-screen case (esp if we stick to certain target DPIs as Adam suggested). One shouldn't ask the typical user for information that's too cumbersome to use, oui? Like asking them to use a physical ruler to match up against. -- Michel Alexandre Salim µblog: http://identi.ca/hircus http://twitter.com/hircus GPG key ID: 78884778 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
