On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:48:11PM +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A daft question perhaps, but I thought... > > > > > I'm not sure how we can make DPI magically be correct in gazillions of > > > broken displays' EDID. > > > > How do other OS' do it? > > Apple manage by virtue of most of their customers using their monitors. > Windows doesn't appear to be DPI-sensitive.
There's a fairly well-hidden setting in Windows' display config settings somewhere (depends on the exact version of Windows in use) which lets you pick between three hard-coded DPI settings (96, 120 or 150 or so, IIRC) or - again, I think it depends on the Windows version in use - specify a DPI value. I don't believe Windows ever pays attention to the display's EDID-reported DPI. As another poster in this thread has noted, this (Windows' hard-coded 96dpi default) has probably had a very significant impact on the market availability of displays with DPIs significantly above 96. You cannot, for instance, buy a 20" 1920x1080 monitor on the mass market, though there's no plausible technical reason why not. Another data point is that, when the Sony Vaio P (which has a 221 DPI display) came out, most of the reviews complained that the fonts in Windows were far too small... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
