Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

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On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 16:18 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The heuristic isn't the problem. The problem is that we have no 
> technology that allows us to handle the complicated case of multiple 
> displays, and solving it purely for the simple case makes the 
> complicated case *worse*. Adding additional complexity for what would 
> be, at best, a different set of problems doesn't seem like a worthwhile 
> way to spend time. The only people who are actively upset by the status 
> quo are the ones who have the ability to fix it for their case, anyway.

I am sure display manager can easily grow a button to say something
along the lines of: change font resolution to better fit multiple
monitors. so that when someone that has widely varying DPIs between
monitors plugs a second monitor in they can press that button and get
whatever default you like best for that use case.

Simo.


<flamebait>I am not asking for a slider because I guess the options
police would shot it down :-P </flamebait>

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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