They call that resolution independence. The whole thing behind Leopard and Vista was measurement by inches or centimeters instead of the futile pixel which has itself deeply embedded into everything. That's not to say that all applications therein won't use pixels or that either system is a panacea, but it's important to know what customers want and not just listen to your engineer's pipe dreams as seems to be the norm at Sun. Personally I find this is the reason the "viability" of X11 in general is a problem for most regular users who expect consistency and modern practices.
James On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Evan Yan wrote: >>> >>> Actually, instead of changing font sizes you should change the >>> resolution dots per inch (click Details on the fonts dialog). If >>> you are >>> using a laptop or LCD screen the dot resolution is probably more >>> like >>> 120 dpi than the default 96 dpi. >>> >> Given most people use LCD screens nowadays, I guess we should either >> change the default dpi, or use a larger font size. > > I don't see any correlation between LCD screens and DPI. The LCD > screen I am using is an accurate 96 DPI. I have seen LCD screens up > to 200 DPI, and screens (targeted for TV applications) with rather low > resolution. > > It seems most worthwhile to provide an easy interface so that the user > can tell the X11 server what the actual DPI is (by entering the > physical dimensions of the display area). Applications should take > this into account when rendering glyphs. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
