Newer mobile screen are like 250 ~ 350 ppi these days so yes I want bigger buttons by default. It's useless vs happiness so scaling by resolution got more priority.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > On 3 May 2011, at 17:01, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> fixing the images is incorrect I think. 96DPI and 72DPI are both >> "acceptable" values for screen displays. There is actually no real standard >> and screens have a varying resolution. Thus 72 and 96 DPIs are just custom >> values. >> Traditionally, Mac saved images with no "explicit" resolution as 72dpi and >> windows tends to use 96dpi. >> >> I think your patch is wrong in concept: no developer would expect their >> button or any other gui element to be resized according to the display >> resolution. A pixel is a pixel in that case. > > I haven't really been following this, and I'm not sure what is actually being > said above but I'll say what I expect: > > If I change the resolution of my display to make it higher resolution, I > expect to see windows, buttons, images etc get smaller ... ie I expect them > to work in pixels. > Interestingly, I don't really expect text to work the same way ... you > generally specify the point size of your text and expect it to appear with > the specified point size irrespective of the display resolution (though I > wouldn't say I 'expect' that behavior, because I know plenty of systems don't > really support setting text size properly). > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > -- .----. Banlu Kemiyatorn /.../\...\ 漫画家 |.../ \...| http://qstx.blogspot.com (Free Software Advocacy & Development) |../ \..| http://feedbat.blogspot.com (Studio Work For Hire) \/ \/ http://groundzerostudiocomplex.blogspot.com (Studio Research) _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev