On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 09:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 05:16 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > If you use Fedora (Workstation, at least, and I think maybe KDE too) on > > > > a 3200x1800 13" screen then hidpi mode will kick in, and everything > > > > will be sized as if you were using a 1600x900 13" screen, which is a > > > > pretty common setup. > > > > > > Yes, Plasma 5 definitely handles that as a hidpi display. > > > > > > But KDE is actually much smarter and can handle any DPI, though you will > > > likely have to configure it manually, because as you explained, the > > > developers of the commonly used X drivers decided to be jerks and > > > deliberately report a bogus geometry. > > > > [Citation really needed] > > Well, Kevin's framing of this is clearly...opionated...:) but my blog > post gave the citation. > > https://www.happyassassin.net/2015/07/09/of-dpis-desktops-and-toolkits/ > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86RandR12.c#n787 > > as my post explained: Oh, since I'm referring to an old post I should note one thing: after I wrote that post (and partly because of it), GTK+'s behaviour was changed to just use a hardcoded default of 96dpi, like GNOME. Everywhere the post refers to GTK+ doing the same DPI calculation as KDE/Qt, that's no longer true. It doesn't do that any more. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
