On 27 October 2016 at 17:50, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> But, GTK core maintainers have always insisted those didn't exist (just >> like they insisted on hardcoding 96 dpi, on the eve of Apple showing the >> world it was arbitrary and obsolete). > > The worst is that this mentality has infected the core X11 as well, also > breaking KDE's code that would carefully compute the correct DPI, if only > X11 would not go out of its way to lie to it about the physical screen size! > > (I wonder how this works under Wayland. Does KDE finally get to see the real > physical size again there, or is the kernel now a liar too?) Everything is a liar.. starting from the monitor, to the video card to the kernel to the display driver. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
