On Saturday, June 29, 2013 04:47:09 PM Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > It's not a reliable value to use, because it's not correctly reported > by many monitors, and does not actually correspond to the DPI assumed > by any other UI toolkit. I've looked for the right value for quite a > while, but only conclusion I can find is that none of > Gnome/KDE/Xfce/GTK/Qt/.. have proper high DPI support on Linux/X11, > it's just not implemented. If one of them did we could copy the same > mechanism to detect DPI.
Blog post from yesterday may provide insight into how others are tackling the issue. http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/06/28/hidpi-support-in-gnome/ -Reuben _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers